lmn1919/dompdf.js

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dompdf.js is a pure-frontend DOM-to-PDF engine built with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript that renders vector PDFs directly in the browser without jsPDF or a server. It supports pagination for long documents, selectable text, custom font embedding, headers/footers, compression, and encryption.

Use cases

• convert html to pdf in the browser
• generate multi-page pdf from dom
• export invoices or reports as vector pdf client-side
• make selectable searchable pdf text instead of canvas screenshots
• embed custom fonts and unicode text in generated pdfs
• add headers footers and page numbers to exported pdf
• encrypt or compress pdf generated in frontend

When to choose

• you need vector, selectable-text PDFs rendered entirely client-side
• you export long paginated documents (hundreds of pages) from the DOM
• you want to avoid canvas-screenshot libraries like html2pdf.js that produce blurry bitmap PDFs
• you need custom fonts, Unicode/CJK text, or PDF encryption without a server

When to avoid

• you need server-side PDF generation (e.g. Node or headless Chrome rendering)
• you require full CSS layout fidelity for arbitrarily complex pages
• your target environment cannot load WASM or Web Workers
• you need features like form filling or PDF editing rather than generation

Facets

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