adonis-pdf

adonis-pdf

Service provider for building PDFs using pdfmake.

Installation

• Run npm i adonis-pdf or yarn add adonis-pdf
• Create config/pdf.js and set any custom fonts you wish to use:

module.exports = {
  fontDescriptors: {
    // my fonts here
  }
}

• Add 'adonis-pdf/providers/PdfProvider' to the providers array within start/app.js

Usage

Add const PDF = use('PDF') to whatever file you wish to use it, then call PDF.create(). This method accepts two parameters:

• definition: Object representing the PDF content/styles etc
• stream: A Readable or Writeable Stream the PDF will be piped to

Example

'use strict'

const PDF = use('PDF')

class MyController {

  async generatePdf ({ response }) {

    const definition = {
      content: [
        {
          text: 'test',
          style: 'header'
        }
      ],
      styles: {
        header: {
          fontSize: 22,
          bold: true
        }
      }
    }

    PDF.create(definition, response.response)

    return response
  }

}