AGAgileVenture·Aug 15, 2024Submission
JsPDF: Generate PDFs on the Client-Side with Just JavaScript
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jsPDF
JavaScript2013–2024
parallax / jsPDF
jsPDF
Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
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Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
10 sourcesCan you point me to something that explains how to do what you did (embedding the base64 of the font TTF)? I'm wondering how I can make a PDF of a webpage use the same font I used on the webpage.
Edit: Never mind. I found the instructions on one of your links:
https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF#use-of-unicode-characters--ut...
In Show HN: PDFs from HTMLI was looking for something similar recently and I ended up using jsPDF for my ResumeToPDF site and it worked pretty well. Only thing I sort of had pain with was that I had to include SVG icons in-line in the html/javascript and had to convert them to base64 to be included in the PDF. And same thing for the custom fonts - I had to include base64 of the font TTFs to be embedded in the PDF:
https://resumetopdf.com
https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
In Show HN: PDFs from HTMLI used jsPDF for my ResumeToPDF site and it worked pretty well. Only thing I sort of had pain with was that I had to include SVG icons in-line in the html/javascript and had to convert them to base64 to be included in the PDF. And same thing for the custom fonts - I had to include base64 of the font TTFs to be embedded in the PDF:
https://resumetopdf.com
https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
In Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDFYeah, that technically works ;)
I was kind of expecting that the PDF generation is done with some script like https://github.com/mrrio/jspdf and then rendered with https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js :)
In Convert Markdown to PDF only using browserJust got off work and saw all the comments. I wrote this up a few months ago to make custom cards for a mafia/werewolf type game I've been playing at work (as some guessed). It's 100% client side and uses jsPDF[0]. You can find the (very rough) source on my github[1]. Future plans include better styling and some changes to allow easier clearing of the template. Thanks!
[0]: https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
[1]: https://github.com/konamacona/cardproxy
In Show HN: Card Proxy Generator – Generate printable game cards from JSONInteresting. There's jsPDF as well which is similar: https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
In URL to PDF MicroserviceThere's also https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
In Show HN: My first web app – PDF memo creatorWe're working on it, we're waiting on https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF/issues/12
In Invoice NinjaGithub link is missing on that page. https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
In JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator