pdf-builder v0.4.5

node-pdf-builder

Requires wkhtmltopdf.

Installation

npm install pdf-builder

Example

var PDF = require('pdf-builder')

new PDF()
	.setGlobalOptions({
		headerFontSize:  18,
		headerSpacing:   10,
		marginTop:       30,
		debugJavascript: true
	})
	.addPath('http://google.com', {
		headerCenter: 'Google',
		runScript: function() {
			console.log('Google input being processed...')
		}
	})
	.addPath('http://wkhtmltopdf.com/', {
		headerCenter: 'wkhtmltopdf',
		fnInput: 'wkhtmltopdf input being processed...',
		runScript: function(foo) {
			console.log(foo) // wkhtmltopdf input being processed...
		}
	})
	.setCustomCommand(function() {
		// Inject custom logic into command construction
		return this.getCommand().replace(/wkhtmltopdf.com/g, 'wkhtmltopdf.org')
	})
	.writeFile('output.pdf', function(err, result) {
		// result contains any warnings / console output from input execution
		console.log(result)
		console.log('Done!')

		/*
			Output:

			:1 Google input being processed...
			:1 wkhtmltopdf input being processed...
			Done!
		*/
	})

Features

• Supports multiple pages
• Supports global and page-level wkhtmltopdf options
• Supports custom commands - use the helper functions as much or as little as you want
• Suppresses wkhtmltopdf progress messages and only returns actual page outputs and errors
• Supports passing actual functions as runScript values, with fnInput as its input
• Supports streaming

TODO

• .addTableOfContents()

Acknowledgments

• Inspired by (and some internal helper functions lifted from) devongovett/node-wkhtmltopdf