Pdfkit documentation how to#

The idea is to have a base service that can handle the PDF files creation on it’s own and that it can receive the HTML file that be filled with business data, the final name of the PDF file and a CSS file if needed.

File Exporter Base Exporterįirst of all, I created a new Django’s app to concentrate all the file generation logic in one place. Because I’ll be using Django to write this article, I installed the python version of this module, but bare in mind that it’s available for other languages. This is a library to convert HTML to PDF in a simple way.

Pdfkit documentation how to#

I usually start my articles saying that it’s very frequent that developers have to do certain things, and this post won’t be the exception 😂 I bet that you had to generate files in PDF format for different circumstances, for instance: invoices or credit notes for final users of our platform, insight documents for administrators users, and so on.Ĭreating files to show data it’s a repeated requirement in many projects and sometimes we can get a little messy trying to figure out where and how to start.