template-pdf-generator

Template pdf generator

This is a small nodejs-script that generates a pdf-file, given some data and a twig template. It uses wkhtmltopdf through the wkhtmltopdf node package. wkhtmltopdf has to be installed.

Installation

npm install template-pdf-generator

Usage

var pdfGenerator = require('template-pdf-generator');
var fs = require('fs');

var data = {
  name: 'World'
};

var template = '<h1>Hello {{name}}</h1>';

var css = 'h1 {color: red}';

pdfGenerator(data, template, css).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('out.pdf'));

You can also use some options:

pdfGenerator(data, template, css, options)

The options object is the same as documented in the wkhtmltopdf node package.

Usage as a command line tool

Clone or download the project.

From the directory of the project run:

node index.js -data data.json -template template.html

Options :

• -data or -D (mandatory) : path and name of the json data file
• -template or -T (mandatory) : path and name of the template file
• -css : path and name of the css file, if necessary
• -out : path and name of the resulting pdf file. By default, the created file is out.pdf in the script root directory.

Further work

• Allow other template engines than twig
• Allow other encoding than utf-8