This script generates text-only PDFs by reading configuration from a JSON file. It can also overlay text on existing PDFs using QPDF.
npm i -g pdf-writer
pdf-writer <path to a JSON file>
See example/example.json for reference.
A few notes:
x and width are relative to the width of the page; y and lineGap are relative to the height of the page.align is center and for verticalAlign is middle: you don’t need to specify them explicitly.continuation only works for single-line labels.This script uses QPDF for overlaying text on existing PDFs. An example of how to achieve this can be found in the example file: see the line with the postprocess configuration. If you don’t have QPDF installed, remove this line in order to be able to run the example.
FAQs
Overlays text on PDFs.
We found that pdf-writer 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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