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A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2011-07-11 · latest 2025-02-14

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  1. …see how [3] does it. [1] https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes-text.html#h... [2] https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit [3] https://github.com/eloops/hocr2pdf
    comment by MassPikeMike · 2025-02-14 · in OCR4all
  2. …eventually switched to pdfkit [1] for better PDF accessibility support and smaller files [2]. [1] https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit [2] https://github.com/minvws/nl-covid19-coronacheck-web-pdf-too...
    comment by Confiks · 2024-08-15 · in JsPDF: Generate PDFs on the Client-Side with Just JavaScript
  3. As for libraries, it seems PDFKit is the dominant one. https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit As to why it’s so inaccessible…because Adobe created this monstrosity to do just about everything. Text, fonts, vector graphics, raster graphics,…
    comment by perardi · 2022-05-04 · in Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
  4. pdfmake is based on my PDFKit project http://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit , which does the actual PDF generation under the hood. pdfmake is a layout engine on top of PDFKit supporting a nice declarative json document description format.
    comment by devongovett · 2015-05-30 · in Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
  5. There's also https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit , which I've used to bulk-print ticket envelopes for an event. It does support multiple pages, as I had one PDF file per event occurrence (with 50-80 envelopes per).
    comment by phs2501 · 2015-05-30 · in Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
  6. https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit (I've also been working on something lower-level — basically support for creating a PDF file out of its raw sections — but it's not quite yet released).
    comment by gmac · 2014-05-08 · in How fast is PDF.js?
  7. …code is a nice read, and quite illuminating, if you've ever wanted to dig under the hood of a PDF: https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit/tree/master/lib edit: In particular, some of this TTF font handling stuff is pretty fun:…
    comment by jashkenas · 2012-01-02 · in PDFKit - A PDF generation library for Node.js.
  8. Code here: https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit
    comment by devongovett · 2011-07-11 · in PDFKit, a powerful PDF generation library for Node.js