[Feature Request] URL to PDF & HTML to PDF

[vdbhb59]

What type of request is this?

New feature for an existing tool

Clear and concise description of the feature you are proposing

There are several URL & HTML to PDF convertors, but the trouble is, we have to rely on their unknown privacy policies, and we are not sure if those sites actually delete the files or not. With self-hosting, at least I will not have to worry about it, and this tool is the best.
The only actual working url & html to pdf (with converted pdf having text and not as an image-pdf) is https://www.sejda.com/. If you can get it working, one will not have to rely on random sites.

If I am missing something here, more than happy to be corrected.

Is there example of this tool in the wild?

https://www.sejda.com/

Additional context

I am not sure of this point, as I do not know how this can be achieved, and you may know.
Check that the feature can be implemented in a client side only app (IT-Tools is client side only, no server).*

Validations

• Check the feature is not already implemented in the project.
• Check that there isn't already an issue that request the same feature to avoid creating a duplicate.
• Check that the feature can be implemented in a client side only app (IT-Tools is client side only, no server).
• Everything is written in PLAIN ENGLISH

[sharevb]

Hi @vdbhb59 , this would effectively require you to selfhost a docker for this kind of service (salle kind as tool Download Docker Image)

[vdbhb59]

Hi @vdbhb59 , this would effectively require you to selfhost a docker for this kind of service (salle kind as tool Download Docker Image)

Hi. I actually am using the Yunohost deployment. Will it work there? Something that can be done for this?

[sharevb]

Sounds possible to make docker images to work with yunohost but sounds also tricky.

[vdbhb59]

Sounds possible to make docker images to work with yunohost but sounds also tricky.

Okay, but afaik, YNH does not use docker.

[sharevb]

Yes but you can install it and use Redirect app to give access to docker services.

Or you can host : https://apps.yunohost.org/app/stirling-pdf

[vdbhb59]

I use bento. I hate Stirling after it went haywire with paywall nonsense. Bento dev has confirmed it won't go berserk like Stirling. Also, I use bento from YNH itself.

[sharevb]

Interesting to know about Stirling and I didn't know Bento. In fact, the best way to print HTML to PDF is your browser itself. As I do in Markdown to HTML tool, it opens a print only window that triggers printing, then choose pdf printer.

Handling full rendering to PDF only with client side is not reliable. Also accessing any url requires that Cors is set on target website, so also unreliable.

That's why this needs either simple browser printing, (so fully client side as described above) or full server side using puppeteer.