ChromicPDF seems to be the popular choice for pdf generation at the moment. However, I wanted to get some community input on pdf generation libraries that DO NOT have a dependency on Chromium, puppeteer etc. I am trying to avoid the dev ops overhead of managing these additional dependencies. I woul…

This thread has quite a few options: Looking for a Prawn-Like PDF Generation Library in Elixir

I’ve been using Typst, a Rust library for generating PDFs from markdown. Typst is also a pure functional language such that you can put display logic into functions in a template to keep such logic out of Elixir. To use the latest version, 0.12, you’ll want to use it on the command line from Elixir…

Thank you. I did look at PDF generator but unfortunately WKHTML has been archived and is no longer available through brew or asdf. It seems most people are trying to migrate of it.

I find styling in in HTML and CSS then converting to PDF easier. As for generation using Chromium, the best way to do it is by using an AWS Lambda. Handles concurrency of multiple invocations perfectly.

Just done whole investigation into this for work (we are a Java house). If you can avoid it in the first place, that’s the best approach (i.e. let the client print as pdf from their browser and use css3 styling for print media). I did contemplate the XSL-FO route, but that seems progressively out …

[image] MikeRocke: I did contemplate the XSL-FO route, but that seems progressively out of fashion, (I believe it’s down to the push for better CSS for printed media). I think not, unless HTML will be page-size aware at some point, using that technology is very limited when it comes to genera…

Ah sorry I might’ve missed something. I thought CSS supports page sizing with size CSS at-rule descriptor - CSS | MDN Unless we are talking different things?

Very interesting, this is certainly something new. The main question is: can this be used to do things like displaying the page number at the bottom of every page?

Great question! No idea on that one I’m afraid!

[image] Using CSS counters - CSS | MDN CSS counters let you adjust the appearance of content based on its location in a document. For example, you can use counters to automatically number the headings on a webpage or to change the numbering on ordered lists. C…