There are a few JS-Frameworks for generating PDFs. Some are more mature than others so a took a look and want to share my results. Below are three of the more feature rich and advanced JS-Frameworks.
You should note that the first two are close to each other (pdfmake is actualy using pdfkit internally) and their approach is to generate the pdf from an object which contains the content and styling, while node-html-pdf is, as the name suggests, generating the pdf from a provided html file.
I find both solutions do have their use cases so I did a short comparison to show the features. Of course I listed only what I found interesting and there are a lot more possibilities to layout and configure the pdf.
- https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake
- https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit
- https://github.com/marcbachmann/node-html-pdf
| Framework | Serverside | Clientside | Vector graphics | jpeg | png | css styling | html2pdf conversion | font embedding | create from js-object |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pdfmake | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes (object) | no | yes | yes |
| pdfkit | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes (object) | no | yes | yes |
| node-html-pdf | yes | no | ? | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |