# Which PDF document creator: PDFMonkey or DocsAutomator?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/which-pdf-document-creator-pdfmonkey-or-docsautomator/76731>\
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**Created:** [October 1, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/which-pdf-document-creator-pdfmonkey-or-docsautomator/76731 "2024-10-01T12:38:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![PioneerTown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pioneertown/32/78768_2.png) [@PioneerTown](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PioneerTown)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/which-pdf-document-creator-pdfmonkey-or-docsautomator/76731/1 "2024-10-01T12:38:33Z")

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Hi there!

For customers, we often need to create PDF documents (often with esigning).  
I know there are 2 main integrations for Glide: PDF Monkey and Docsautomator.  
(Of course you could integrate with every PDF creator through Zapier but I think it ads another step of complexity to serve the URL back to Glide).

Which should I use and why do you think it’s better?

Thanks!

Nathan

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/which-pdf-document-creator-pdfmonkey-or-docsautomator/76731/2 "2024-10-01T13:51:38Z")

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It depends. Both are good at their own game, I think DocsAutomator requires much less coding knowledge, you can just plug a Google Docs in and it will work, but you must know how to get the right data structure over there.

With PDFMonkey, you should know a bit of HTML and CSS to play around. They also use Liquid so it’s easier for looping to create a table, for example.

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**Author:** ![PioneerTown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pioneertown/32/78768_2.png) [@PioneerTown](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PioneerTown)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/which-pdf-document-creator-pdfmonkey-or-docsautomator/76731/3 "2024-10-01T14:59:15Z")

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Okay, that makes a lot of sense! 😃  
So basically, non technical → Docsautomator, otherwise PDF Monkey!

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**Author:** ![Rupert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rupert/32/44178_2.png) [@Rupert](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rupert)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/which-pdf-document-creator-pdfmonkey-or-docsautomator/76731/4 "2024-10-01T15:09:58Z")

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@PioneerTown Just to add to what @ThinhDinh already said (thank you!):

DocsAutomator…

- preprocesses images, so you can actually throw a lot of different formats etc. at it
- has no cap on document generation times
- has a lot features around styling line items / adding grouping etc.
- allows you to continue editing documents (via Google Docs) after generation
- can handle any design including fonts etc. you can implement in Google Docs

And I’m always there to support 🙂

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/which-pdf-document-creator-pdfmonkey-or-docsautomator/76731/5 "2024-10-01T23:07:42Z")

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> [@PioneerTown](#):
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> So basically, non technical → Docsautomator, otherwise PDF Monkey!

PDFMonkey also has a “visual” mode where you can drag and drop components into a template, and you can switch it to code mode once you need to do some styling that “visual” doesn’t offer (but it’s a one-way ticket, you can’t reverse that).

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/which-pdf-document-creator-pdfmonkey-or-docsautomator/76731/6 "2024-10-08T23:07:43Z")

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