flyingsaucer

Is this an xy problem? If you have the original document (in Markdown), one possibility would be to use my software, KeenWrite[1], to convert Markdown to XHTML then typeset XHTML to PDF via ConTeXt. See the user manual[2] for an example of a Markdown document typeset in this fashion, along with usage instructions. If you only have HTML to work with, you can also use Flying Saucer[3], which is what KeenWrite uses to preview Markdown documents when rendered as HTML. Flying Saucer uses an open-source version of iText[4] to produce PDF documents (from HTML source docs). Another possibility is to use pandoc and LaTeX. [1]: https://keenwrite.com/ [2]: https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf [3]: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer [4]: https://itextpdf.com/

A few JavaFX issues I've encountered while writing KeenWrite[1], my FOSS text editor based heavily on JavaFX: * Building installer-free cross-platform binaries on a local Linux build machine requires an external packager[2]. * Good luck building an installer-free binary for CPU architectures that differ from the compiler's machine. * Creating a Windows version will cost $ (to sign). * Creating a macOS version will cost $ (to sign). * WebView is a bloated beast that bundles JavaScript and exposes no API to set scrollbar positions. * FlyingSaucer[3] is a lightweight alternative to WebView, but requires a SwingNode. * SwingNode text rendering is blurry on Windows. * SwingNodes issue GDK-3 warnings on Linux. * Menu latching messes up cross-platform (Alt+Tab is a wrench). * Modular applications are a pain. Migration has been poorly communicat

I built an open source project like this some years ago (holy carp! 20 years ago) called Flying Saucer. It was a pure Java HTML + CSS2 renderer. I imagined people would use it to render rich text UIs in games, but the killer use ended up being server side PDF generation. It was far easier to generate HTML and render to a PDF than to use the various PDF report generation APIs available at the time. Blitz looks cool. I'm excited to see more GUI libs in Rust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Saucer_(library) PS: amazingly it is still being updated! https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer/releases...

Great achievement, congratulations! This reminds me of flying saucer, a CSS render written in pure Java. Successfully used it in multiple projects for rendering PDFs in the past. It has some great features to handle paged media. For example, it can repeat table headers on a new page, if there is a page-break within the table. Unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't get much active development anymore. https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

I have been creating print labels with plot/cut lines using css and I used browsers to covert it to PDF. The experience was terrible. While all was perfect on my 1-page proof print, both large browsers messed up the final document (with a few hundred labels on several pages). Firefox forgot to render images after a few pages. So on some labels the barcodes were not printed. Chrome looked good at the fist glance. But it turned out that the plot/cut lines (which I created via CSS borders) had been shifted by 1-2mm on _some_ pages. Result was garbage. I finally switched to https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer which is a high quality HTML/CSS to PDF library. Only drawback is that it only supports CSS 2.1, so some fancy features are not supported like rotating text.

I've used flying saucer pdf[1] for this in the past, but the missing piece always seems to be a descent WYSIWYG template editor. Either open source or paid. Any suggestions on a web solution that allows non-devs to make great templates would be appreciated. Historically I've built something simple with Tiny and added a preview button to render, but that super clunky. [1] https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

flyingsaucer [1] is also an option. [1] https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

After trying many HTML2PDF libraries we're doing the same thing and are quite happy with this approach. I've tried using "professional" solutions like iText pdfHTML[0]. They all seem to be based on flyingsaucer[1] which only supports HTML4 and CSS2, and will fail rendering pages that use modern CSS let alone JavaScript. [0]: https://itextpdf.com/en/products/itext-7/convert-html-css-to... [1]: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

Flying Saucer would do https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer For more controlled results you could use Prince.

Our rails app generates dozens of accounting related reports on the fly in HTML and we use Flying Saucer to generate a PDF version - https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer To help minimize request time, we keep Flying Saucer persisted with Nailgun - https://github.com/martylamb/nailgun For generating checks, IRS forms and other PDFs that involve precise formatting we use Prawn - https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn