online generating
1. PDF script derived from PostScript (Adobe XML Forms Architecture, ISO 32000-1)
2. Ruby wrapper for XFA: Prawn
3. *.X to PDF: wkhtmltopdf for backend, html5 solutions are not powerful enough
4. *.X to *.Y: Pandoc (based on wkhtmltopdf)
1. Based on QtWebKit
2. Stable versions are headless running supported
3. Full HTML/CSS support, including external links (external css, images), inline styles and SVG
4. Powerful support for Printing standard
1. Strictly limited to HTML coding style
2. Seriously influenced by HTML/CSS implementation
3. Better to use Printing style CSS
4. Some typesettings may need debugging:
for e.g. page-break-x
for e.g. table header
GC / Insight
construct reporting dom
Embedded in iframe page
Send dom to backend
Sync send pdf to frontend
Async send to s3 & show link
In invisible area of the page
By hanyi8000
