The pdfmake npm package is a server-side and client-side library for generating PDF documents from a JSON-based structure. It provides a declarative API that allows developers to layout text, images, vectors, and other elements in a PDF document.
Text and Typography
This feature allows you to add text to your PDF with various typography settings such as font size, style, and weight.
{"content": [{"text": "Hello World", "style": "header"}], "styles": {"header": {"fontSize": 18, "bold": true}}}Lists
With this feature, you can create ordered and unordered lists within your PDF document.
{"content": [{"ul": ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"]}]}Tables
This feature allows you to insert tables into your PDF, with customizable rows, columns, and styling.
{"content": [{"table": {"body": [["Column 1", "Column 2", "Column 3"], ["Value 1", "Value 2", "Value 3"]]}}]}Images
This feature enables you to embed images in your PDF documents, with support for various formats and base64 encoded sources.
{"content": [{"image": "data:image/jpeg;base64,...", "width": 200}]}Vector Graphics
With vector graphics, you can draw shapes and paths to create custom illustrations and designs in your PDF.
{"content": [{"canvas": [{"type": "rect", "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 100, "h": 100, "color": "#E53935"}]}]}html-pdf is a Node.js package that converts HTML to PDF. It uses PhantomJS as a rendering engine. Unlike pdfmake, which uses a JSON structure, html-pdf allows you to define your PDF layout using HTML and CSS.
pdf-lib is a library for creating and modifying PDF documents in any JavaScript environment. It provides low-level PDF manipulation capabilities and differs from pdfmake by offering more control over the PDF creation process at the expense of a steeper learning curve.
PDF document generation library for server-side and client-side in pure JavaScript.
Check out the playground and examples.
Documentation URL: https://pdfmake.github.io/docs/
Source of documentation: https://github.com/pdfmake/docs Improvements are welcome!
using npm:
git clone https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake.git
cd pdfmake
npm install
npm run build
using yarn:
git clone https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake.git
cd pdfmake
yarn
yarn run build
MIT
pdfmake is based on a truly amazing library pdfkit (credits to @devongovett).
Thanks to all contributors.
0.3.0-beta.5 - 2023-02-19
FAQs
Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript
The npm package pdfmake receives a total of 322,328 weekly downloads. As such, pdfmake popularity was classified as popular.
We found that pdfmake demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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