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HTML to PDF

Convert HTML to PDF simple and fast

sudo npm install pdfpy

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you have to get a development env running

Install latest node and npm

Nodejs

Dependency

Python
pdfkit
simplejson

Require

var pdfpy = require('pdfpy');

Types (file and url)

//To generate pdf from file
pdfpy.file()

//To generate pdf from url
pdfpy.url()

Example

File

var pdfpy = require('pdfpy');

var data = {
    //the key as to be same as below
    input: "./test.html",
    output: "./output.pdf"
}
pdfpy.file(data, function(err, res) {
    if(err) throw err

    if(res) console.log("success")
});

URL

var pdfpy = require('pdfpy');

var data = {
    //the key as to be same as below
    input: "http://google.com",
    output: "./output.pdf"
}
pdfpy.url(data, function(err, res) {
    if(err) throw err

    if(res) console.log("success")
});

Using Options

var pdfpy = require('pdfpy');

var data = {
    //the key as to be same as below
    input: "./test.html",
    output: "./output.pdf",
    options: {
        'page-size': 'Letter',
        'margin-top': '0.75in',
        'margin-right': '0.75in',
        'margin-bottom': '0.75in',
        'margin-left': '0.75in',
    }
}

pdfpy.file(data, function(err, res) {
    if(err) throw err

    if(res) console.log("success")
});