Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
imgix vs wkhtmltopdf: What are the differences?
Developers describe imgix as "Real-time image resizing service and CDN". imgix is a real-time image processing service and CDN. Resize, crop, and edit images simply by changing their URLs. On the other hand, wkhtmltopdf is detailed as "Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)". wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.
imgix belongs to "Image Processing and Management" category of the tech stack, while wkhtmltopdf can be primarily classified under "File Conversion".
wkhtmltopdf is an open source tool with 8.32K GitHub stars and 1.17K GitHub forks. Here's a link to wkhtmltopdf's open source repository on GitHub.
HotelTonight, Swiftype (an Elastic company), and Delicious are some of the popular companies that use imgix, whereas wkhtmltopdf is used by LendingHome, Quid Software de Gestión Académica, and European Environment Agency. imgix has a broader approval, being mentioned in 55 company stacks & 6 developers stacks; compared to wkhtmltopdf, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of imgix
- Image processing on demand28
- Easy setup24
- Smart Cropping18
- Reduce Development Costs18
- Efficient15
- Insanely Fast12
- Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters11
- Easy to understand pricing10
- Professional Features and Options9
- Excellent Face Detection6
- Lightyears better than ImageMagick6
- S3 as source5
- Great for Dynamic Compositing4
- Scales to your company's needs4
- Free tier1
- Amazing support1
- Great libraries and integrations1
- Automatic scrset generation1
- Forward thinking1
- Video encoding1
- Fast Image Delivery1