Wkhtmltopdf Considered Harmful

Re:Wkhtmltopdf Considered Harmful by gandhium on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:05PM (#17567606)

Looks like they just choose a wrong library. Wkhtmltopdf is intended (as name implied) to convert HTML to PDFs, like 'we rendered this nice page in browser using D3 and fancy set of CSSs, now we need to export it to PDF'.

And their grievance is about abilities to generate PDFs from a template with a predefined presets. Clearly, other libraries will suit that task better.

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Re:Wkhtmltopdf Considered Harmful by icebraining on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:09PM (#17567664)

I disagree; wkhtmltopdf has many options for exactly their use case (like the headers and footers), not just for regular webpages.

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Re:Wkhtmltopdf Considered Harmful by inferiorhuman on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:45PM (#17568078)

If headers and footers are a significant issue something like XSL-FO (with Apache fop) may be a better idea. But then you're trading one monster for another.

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