diegomura/react-pdfGitHub
choose when you want to build PDFs with React components instead of JSON document definitions.
📄 Create PDF files using React
- 16.8k
- TypeScript
- MIT
active2mo ago
bpampuch/pdfmake Alternatives
PDF generation / document generation
pdfmake is a JavaScript library for client- and server-side PDF generation from a declarative JSON document definition, featuring layout, tables, lists, and styling.
Same job, different approach
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
dompdf/dompdfGitHub
choose when you are in a PHP stack and need HTML/CSS-to-PDF rather than JavaScript JSON layouts.
HTML to PDF converter for PHP
- 11.2k
- PHP
- LGPL-2.1
active2mo ago
pdfme/pdfmeGitHub
choose when you want a WYSIWYG template designer and TypeScript/React generation instead of hand-written JSON.
Open-source PDF generation library built with TypeScript and React. Features a WYSIWYG template designer, PDF viewer, and powerful generation capabilities. Create custom PDFs effortlessly in both browser and Node.js environments.
- 4.8k
- TypeScript
- MIT
active2mo ago
LibrePDF/OpenPDFGitHub
choose when your project is in Java and you need programmatic PDF creation and editing.
OpenPDF is an open-source Java library for creating, editing, rendering, and encrypting PDF documents, as well as generating PDFs from HTML. It is licensed under the LGPL and MPL.
- 4.4k
- Java
- NOASSERTION
active2mo ago
parallax/jsPDFGitHub
choose when you need low-level client-side drawing control instead of automatic layout.
Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
- 31.3k
- JavaScript
- MIT
active2mo ago
QuestPDF/QuestPDFGitHub
choose in a .NET/C# stack for fluent component-based PDF layout rather than JavaScript.
QuestPDF is a modern library for PDF document generation. Its fluent C# API lets you design complex layouts with clean, readable code. Create documents using a flexible, component-based approach.
- 14.2k
- C#
- NOASSERTION
active2mo ago
Kozea/WeasyPrintGitHub
choose in a Python stack for high-fidelity HTML/CSS-to-PDF rather than JS JSON layout.
The awesome document factory
- 9.6k
- Python
- BSD-3-Clause
active26d ago
FastReports/FastReportGitHub
choose for .NET reporting with a visual report designer rather than code-defined PDFs.
Free Open Source Reporting tool for .NET6/.NET Core/.NET Framework that helps your application generate document-like reports
- 3.1k
- C#
- MIT
active1mo ago
Hopding/pdf-libGitHub
choose when you need low-level PDF creation and modification in any JavaScript environment.
Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
- 8.6k
- TypeScript
- MIT
dormant2.2y ago
End-user tools
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
dvcoolarun/web2pdfGitHub
choose if you need a command-line webpage-to-PDF tool instead of embedding a library.
🔄 CLI to convert Webpages to PDFs 🚀
- 1.3k
- Python
- MIT
active3mo ago
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These projects were analysed and named pdfmake among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how pdfmake rates them is a separate judgement, made when pdfmake is analysed in its own right.
parallax/jsPDFGitHub
calls pdfmake “Choose it for declarative JSON-based document definitions on client or server; jsPDF requires manual positioning.”
Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
31.3kJavaScriptactive
QuestPDF/QuestPDFGitHub
calls pdfmake “Choose for JavaScript client/server PDF generation with declarative document definitions.”
QuestPDF is a modern library for PDF document generation. Its fluent C# API lets you design complex layouts with clean, readable code. Create documents using a flexible, component-based approach.
14.2kC#active
foliojs/pdfkitGitHub
calls pdfmake “Use if you prefer a declarative JSON document definition over an imperative drawing API, in JS.”
A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
10.7kJavaScriptactive