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Easily generate full-featured PDF files from HTML and other web formats
This package is for rendering PDF files on the server, not on the client. If any resources are not accessible to the server, then they will not be included in the resulting PDF.
To use pdf-from in your Node app:
npm install --save pdf-from
yarn add pdf-from
const pdfFrom = require("pdf-from");
const htmlString = `
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello PDF</h1>
<p>This is a PDF</p>
</body>
</html>
`
await pdfFrom.html(htmlString);
This example renders a template, converts the resulting HTML to a PDF, and then sends the PDF back to the browser.
const pdfFrom = require("pdf-from");
const template = "my_pug_template";
res.render(template, structuredData, async (err, htmlString) => {
const applicationPdf = await pdfFrom.html(htmlString);
if (applicationPdf && Buffer.isBuffer(applicationPdf)) {
res.type("application/pdf");
res.send(applicationPdf);
} else {
res.status(404).send("PDF not found");
}
});
const pdfFrom = require("pdf-from");
const htmlString = `
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello PDF</h1>
<p>This is a PDF</p>
</body>
</html>
`
await pdfFrom.html(htmlString, {
displayHeaderFooter: true,
headerTemplate:
"<span class='title'></span> - <span class='date'></span>"
footerTemplate:
"<span class='pageNumber'></span> of <span class='totalPages'></span>",
format: "Legal",
landscape: true,
margin: {
top: '100px',
right: '20px',
bottom: '10px',
left: '20px'
},
scale: 1.25
});
wrapOutput
normally a buffer is returned with the raw PDF data, this switch causes the PDF data to be wrapped in an object: { pdf: [Buffer] }
useScreenMedia
normally the print styles will be used if they are available, this switch causes any print styles to be ignoredThe package also respects all of the Puppeteer PDF rendering options.
The default [node Docker image](node docker image yarn) does not come bundled with all the libraries required by this package, they have to be added manually. The following needs to be added to your Dockerfile
# Install Chromium dependencies
RUN apt-get update && \
apt-get install -yq \
ca-certificates \
fonts-liberation \
gconf-service \
libappindicator1 \
libappindicator3-1 \
libasound2 \
libatk1.0-0 \
libc6 \
libcairo2 \
libcups2 \
libdbus-1-3 \
libexpat1 \
libfontconfig1 \
libgcc1 \
libgconf-2-4 \
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 \
libglib2.0-0 \
libgtk-3-0 \
libnspr4 \
libnss3 \
libpango-1.0-0 \
libpangocairo-1.0-0 \
libstdc++6 \
libx11-6 \
libx11-xcb1 \
libxcb1 \
libxcomposite1 \
libxcursor1 \
libxdamage1 \
libxext6 \
libxfixes3 \
libxi6 \
libxrandr2 \
libxrender1 \
libxss1 \
libxtst6 \
lsb-release \
xdg-utils wget
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Easily generate full-featured PDF files from HTML and other web formats
The npm package pdf-from receives a total of 114 weekly downloads. As such, pdf-from popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that pdf-from demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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