pdf (paged.js PDF guide)

Thank you! Paged.js is really such an awesome tool. I was searching for many weeks for something like this, so I really think the word needs to get out there more. It could…

Thanks Adam! I know I come across as one of the biggest fans of paged.js, but it’s such an inspirational project! The idea to polyfill the required functionality for CSS Print…

I was a huge supporter of PrinceXML / DocRaptor for precisely the same reason - all the alternatives (that I knew at the time) were not good. Paged.js was a revelation (thanks to…

From my limited experience with wkhtmltopdf, a solution based on paged.js should work better But maybe that’s because I didn’t fully learn wkhtmltopdf PrinceXML is very good but…

The section numbers in the table of contents are over writing the text, maybe not so beautiful.

Thanks for flagging. It’s aimed for desktop users and a reasonable size screen (eg A4 or so), it’s not really a responsive design as it’s meant to be a tool to generate PDFs. So…

Saved PDF (in Chrome) does not have a TOC as a side pane in Acrobat Reader. MIssing pretty important feature.

This is nice but it not a valid Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This looks great -- well done! I'd love to be able to use it (the CSS in particular) in a number of different projects where creating such nice readable output is a hassle.…

Awesome project. Consider adding in the demo automatic anchors on headers so one can quickly copy them for sharing. Currently they can only be obtained from ToC but you need to…

I tried out paged.js recently for a genealogical report exported from Gramps, but I had to use PrinceXML because counter-reset to start at a page does not work:…

My question on these is always how it handles multi page documents. Most DOM and CSS approaches to HTML to PDF require it to fully render everything for placement before it can…

If you'd like to typeset HTML/CSS documents (with optional PDF-specific CSS blocks to handle page layout, numbering, header/footer, etc.), then I'd highly recommend Prince:…

Does anyone know how this compares to PrinceXML / DocRapotor? We pay them big bucks for PDF generation (invoices specifically) and so far we haven't found anything comparable.

Can anyone speak to how this compares with something like wkhtmltopdf? That's what I've been using, and this is my first time hearing about PrinceXML too. I generate some HTML…

For anybody working with pandoc you should try Weasyprint [0]. [0]: https://weasyprint.org/

Does anyone know how this compares to PrinceXML / DocRapotor? We pay them big bucks for PDF generation (invoices specifically) and so far we haven't found anything comparable.