PDF Creation: wkhtmltopdf


In past I post about how good wkhtmltopdf is. I have used it for few of my projects. Really it is the cheapest [as it is open source and free] and powerful solution. But it is not the reason I love it. I love this because it is the Easiest solution available. Most of PDF library range few hundred dollars to start with. Then we learn through their call of function to draw Tables and add media content and text. But with wkhtmltopdf, all you need to do is simple create a HTML page, add CSS and Javascript (yup, it support jQuery’s document load function and other other load method of your favourite javascript library.)

I recently test jQuery load function as I need to write text as Arc, however I don’t want to use Image as image manipulation will generate a rectangle image and then placing it going to be problem. But with wkhtmltopdf, and it’s support for JavaScript it make my life easier. I use a cool ArcText js following a nice article/tutorial http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/01/24/arctext-js-curving-text-with-css3-and-jquery/ .

And yes, I recently saw that develpoment of wkhtmltopdf has started again. So this is going to be very good for those who want easy and best solution for their application.

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