html2pdf is a Go package designed specifically for converting HTML content to PDF documents. It wraps the functionality of Rod for browser automation and pdfcpu for PDF generation, providing a simple and efficient way to create PDFs from HTML content.
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this is very simple code, basically a wrapper, for my personal usage as i struggled to find easy go library to suit my needs for converting html to pdf
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it is not a perfect solution and not yet completed and probably have bugs :)
go get github.com/MhmoudGit/html2pdf
package main
import (
"fmt"
"html/template"
"github.com/MhmoudGit/html2pdf"
)
type Todo struct {
ID int
Item string
}
var tmpl = `
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Todo Information</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">{{.ID}}</h1>
<p style="color: green; font-weight: bold">{{.Item}}.</p>
</body>
</html>
`
func main() {
// directory for saving generated data
tempDir := "files"
// the final output
mergedPdf := "example.pdf"
todos := []Todo{
{ID: 1, Item: "First item"},
}
template, err := template.New("todo").Parse(tmpl)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
// create a pdf generator
g := html2pdf.Generator[Todo]{
OutputPath: tempDir,
FinalPdf: mergedPdf,
Template: template,
Data: todos,
}
// generate pdf
err = g.CreatePdf()
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
// (optional)
// delete the generated templates and pdf
err = g.DeleteFiles()
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
}Find example using html file and css styling in the example folder
- Rod - A powerful Go package for browser automation.
- PDFCPU - A PDF processing library written in Go.