Modern HTML to PDF conversion
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1 min readOct 6, 2018
Update: February 2019
You can find the latest version of this article, updated for 2019 here at our new blog.
Many web apps require some sort of PDF functionality. And as a web developers, we already know one great way to lay out documents — HTML!
But there’s a confusing array of options available for converting HTML to PDF. In this article I’m going to consider the pros and cons of:
- Established tools like wkhtmltopdf that have been in use for years
- Google Chrome in “headless” mode
- Specialist software built specifically for converting HTML to PDF
