Hello community, does anyone have on something for PDF generation in D? I may need a PDF generation library in a vibe.d project I'm working on. :)

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:30:34 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
> Hello community, does anyone have on something for PDF generation in D? I may need a PDF generation library in a vibe.d project I'm working on. :)

AFAIK the only one existing is http://code.dlang.org/packages/fpdf

Dne 10.11.2016 v 23:30 Karabuta via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):

> Hello community, does anyone have on something for PDF generation in D? I may need a PDF generation library in a vibe.d project I'm working on. :)

It depends what you need, for eg. we are using wkhtmltopdf with no problem. We generate some html with css and js and use wkhtmltopdf to generate pdf file.

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:30:34 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
> Hello community, does anyone have on something for PDF generation in D? I may need a PDF generation library in a vibe.d project I'm working on. :)

You can pull in Gtk with Cairo and Pango. Cairo can generate pdf. Pango is necessary for advanced text rendering.

On 11/10/2016 02:30 PM, Karabuta wrote:
> Hello community, does anyone have on something for PDF generation in D?
> I may need a PDF generation library in a vibe.d project I'm working on. :)

Last time I checked, there was nothing even close to the quality of Prince XML when it comes to print media. I use it to produce the PDF version of Programming in D:


https://bitbucket.org/acehreli/ddili/src/45c2eccfa97d7e2245e9f5b165aae1ea905a3cf2/src/Makefile.ders.in?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#Makefile.ders.in-264

Prince is free for personal use. Like Daniel Kozak, I give ddoc-generated HTML and CSS to prince.

Ali

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:30:34 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
> Hello community, does anyone have on something for PDF generation in D? I may need a PDF generation library in a vibe.d project I'm working on. :)

Personally I would generate markdown and use a command line tool (pandoc) to compile it to pdf. Of course ggplotd can save figures in pdf format (using cairod)

I used text files and LaTeX in the past, it works with everything

textfile -> process -> LaTeX -> pdf

On Friday, 11 November 2016 at 09:10:38 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:30:34 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
>> Hello community, does anyone have on something for PDF generation in D? I may need a PDF generation library in a vibe.d project I'm working on. :)
>

Thanks everyone. I will try the various options you suggested.

> Personally I would generate markdown and use a command line tool (pandoc) to compile it to pdf. Of course ggplotd can save figures in pdf format (using cairod)

I want to generated invoice in PDF format. I think markdown and HTML-to-pdf approach sounds manageable to me. Too bad fpdf does not support Unicode (has a potential though).

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 23:42:46 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> Dne 10.11.2016 v 23:30 Karabuta via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
>
>> Hello community, does anyone have on something for PDF generation in D? I may need a PDF generation library in a vibe.d project I'm working on. :)
>
> It depends what you need, for eg. we are using wkhtmltopdf with no problem. We generate some html with css and js and use wkhtmltopdf to generate pdf file.

I do this as well and it works elegant

On Friday, 11 November 2016 at 09:47:21 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
> I used text files and LaTeX in the past, it works with everything
>
> textfile -> process -> LaTeX -> pdf

This.

Another (a bit lower-level) option would be to produce a PostScript file and pass it to (e)ps2pdf.