This makes a PDF perfect for sharing important information and documents.

A PDF can be created from almost any document type too. Word documents, spreadsheets, and presentation slides can all be converted as long as you have a good PDF generation tool.

Finding a good one can be difficult, however. That’s why we’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of the 11 best PDF generation tools.

The automatic creation of PDF files is one of the most important points of a project (commercial or not). As probably, the generated PDF’s are not for you or team but for your demanding clients, you need to provide a solution that meets all expectations and requirements.

In some cases, not because of exaggerated customer requirements but the library you use to generate PDF’s, you’ll find yourself limited and most likely in problems to provide a solution for the client.

In this article, we are going to show 5 of the most imponent PDF generation libraries that will help you to achieve those complex and extense PDF’s.

This top is based in different points as how easy are they to implement, use cases, library users, functions and development status.

5. FPDF

Examples

FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library. F from FPDF stands for Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs.

FPDF has other advantages: high level functions, between its main features are:

• Choice of measure unit, page format and margins.
• Page header and footer management.
• Automatic page break.
• Automatic line break and text justification.
• Image support (JPEG, PNG and GIF).
• Colors.

  HTML to PDF Converter key component of the HiQPdf Library

  Using the HTML to PDF Converter You Can Instantly Create Rich Formatted PDFs

  The HTML to PDF, HTML to SVG and HTML to Image converters included in the HiQPdf library for .NET can be used to create high quality PDF documents, SVG vector images and transparent PNG images.

  Convert HTML5 with complex CSS3, SVG, Canvas, Web Fonts and JavaScript Layout and overlap multiple HTML documents with transparent background Convert only a selected region of the HTML document to a PDF document Manually trigger HTML to PDF conversion by calling a JavaScript method Automatically generated PDF document outline, HTTP and internal PDF links Control the page breaks in PDF with page-break CSS attributes in HTML Change the rendered layout for screen or print using the @media rules in CSS Automatically repeat HTML tables header and footer on each PDF page Retrieve complete information about the HTML elements rendered in PDF The HiQPdf Library for .NET and .NET Core offers you a modern, simple, fast, flexible and powerful tool to create complex and stylish PDF documents in your applications with just a few lines of code. Using the high quality HTML to PDF conversion engine you can easily design a document in HTML with CSS3, JavaScript, SVG or Canvas and then convert it to PDF preserving the exact content and style.