Open Source PDF Generation Libraries

dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) a CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer, it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. PDF rendering is currently provided either by PDFLib or by a bundled version the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro. (Some important changes have been made to the R&OS class, however). In order to use PDFLib with dompdf, the PDFLib PECL extension is required. Using PDFLib improves performance and reduces the memory requirements of dompdf somewhat, while the R&OS CPDF class, though slightly slower, eliminates any dependencies on external PDF libraries.

fpdf2 is a library for simple & fast PDF document generation in Python. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF. Compared with other PDF libraries, fpdf2 is fast, versatile, easy to learn and to extend (example). It is also entirely written in Python and has very few dependencies: Pillow, defusedxml, & fontTools. It is a fork and the successor of PyFPDF.

Open HTML to PDF is a pure-Java library for rendering a reasonable subset of well-formed XML/XHTML (and even some HTML5) using CSS 2.1 (and later standards) for layout and formatting, outputting to PDF or images. Use this library to generated nice looking PDF documents. But be aware that you can not throw modern HTML5+ at this engine and expect a great result. You must special craft the HTML document for this library and use it's extended CSS feature like #31 or #32 to get good results. Avoid floats near page breaks and use table layouts.

The library is a fork of the popular open source Jasper Reports and supports the common features provided by Jasper Reports, but offline and for mobile apps. The PDFReporter library supports iOS, Java and Android library. For your document and report design you use the PDFReporter Studio where you can visualize your data. If you want to use the library commercially please visit our official webpage.

Toolkit e-formulieren is een opensource toolkit voor het op een gebruikersvriendelijke manier kunnen maken en onderhouden van e-formulieren. De Toolkit maakt gebruik van Orbeon, en ondersteunt XForms-compliant e-formulieren, evt. met voorinvulling.

JSAMS is a system that manages all the accounting documents. All the flow of a simplified accounting management system, an estimate can be transferred to a command or a bill, a command can be transferred to a delivery order or a bill, a delivery order can be transferred to a bill, a bill can be transferred to a credit note, a credit note is the final document of the accounting management. That can be also possible to transfer partially a command or a delivery note to a bill!!!

PyFPDF is a library for PDF document generation under Python, ported from PHP (see FPDF: "Free"-PDF, a well-known PDFlib-extension replacement with many examples, scripts, and derivatives). Compared with other PDF libraries, PyFPDF is simple, small, and versatile, with advanced capabilities, and is easy to learn, extend and maintain.