adonis-pdf

Service provider for building PDFs using pdfmake.

❗️ WARNING! This package is heavily in development and is therefore unstable. It may not work correctly or at all. When it is working the way that it needs to I will bump it up to 0.1.0!

Installation

• Run npm i adonis-pdf or yarn add adonis-pdf
• Add 'adonis-pdf/providers/PdfProvider' to the providers array within start/app.js

Configuration

Configuration is done through config/pdf.js. This file should have automatically been copied to your project during installation if you installed it via adonis-cli. If you installed it with npm or Yarn, or the file was not copied across correctly, you may copy the config file from this package or run the following command to create it:

adonis pdf:getconfig

By default all configuration options are null (i.e. we use the pdfmake defaults) but feel free to override them as per the pdfmake documentation:

Option	Description
fonts	Customise the fonts used in your PDFs; if no fonts are specified this package will automatically load default Roboto fonts
styles	Custom style dictionaries allowing you to maintain consistent styles across each PDF
header	Custom header for each page within your PDFs
footer	Custom footer for each page within your PDFs
background	Custom background for each page within your PDFs
page.size	Set the page size to be used
page.orientation	Set the page orientation
page.margins	Set up the page margins

Usage

Add const PDF = use('PDF') to whatever file you wish to use it, then call PDF.create(). This method accepts two parameters:

• content: Array representing the PDF content
• stream: A Readable or Writeable Stream the PDF will be piped to

Example

'use strict'
 
const PDF = use('PDF')
 
class MyController {
 
  async generatePdf ({ response }) {
 
    const content = [
      { text: 'test' }
    ]
 
    PDF.create(content, response.response)
 
    return response
  }
 
}
 
module.exports = MyController