pdf-writer

PDF Writer

This script generates text-only PDFs by reading configuration from a JSON file. It can also overlay text on existing PDFs using QPDF.

Installation and usage

npm i -g pdf-writer
pdf-writer <path to a JSON file>

JSON format

See example/example.json for reference.

A few notes:

• Width and height of a sheet are specified in millimeters.
• x and width are relative to the width of the page; y and lineGap are relative to the height of the page.
• Default value for 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.