pdfmake

pdfmake

PDF document generation library for server-side and client-side usage in pure JavaScript.

Check out the playground and examples.

Features

• line-wrapping,
• text-alignments (left, right, centered, justified),
• numbered and bulleted lists,
• tables and columns
  • auto/fixed/star-sized widths,
  • col-spans and row-spans,
  • headers automatically repeated in case of a page-break,
• images and vector graphics,
• convenient styling and style inheritance,
• page headers and footers:
  • static or dynamic content,
  • access to current page number and page count,
• background-layer,
• page dimensions and orientations,
• margins,
• custom page breaks,
• font embedding,
• support for complex, multi-level (nested) structures,
• table of contents,
• helper methods for opening/printing/downloading the generated PDF,
• setting of PDF metadata (e.g. author, subject).

Documentation

Documentation URL: https://pdfmake.github.io/docs/

Building from sources version 0.2.x

using npm:

git clone --branch 0.2 https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake.git
cd pdfmake
npm install
npm run build

using yarn:

git clone --branch 0.2 https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake.git
cd pdfmake
yarn
yarn run build

License

MIT

Authors

• @bpampuch (founder)
• @liborm85

pdfmake is based on a truly amazing library pdfkit (credits to @devongovett).

Thanks to all contributors.

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