html-to-pdf
Package Description
This package can be use for convert HTML code to PDF.
How to use
const pdfGen = require('html-to-pdf');
const fs = require('fs);
async function Gen(){
let HTML = `
<html>
<body>
<h3>Hello world</h3>
</body>
<html>
let option = {
format: 'A4', // page size
displayHeaderFooter: true,
margin: {
top: 100, //set margin at top for header
bottom: 100 // set margin at bottom for footer
}
}
fs.writeFileSync("temp.pdf",await pdfGen.generatePdf(HTML,option));
}
Gen()
`
This is a sample code for create PDF using html. We can use ejs or any tamplate that return as string html for dynamically create PDF using html code.
Here I used very basic option for creating pdf and if you dont provide any option it will use inbuilt option but if you want to to add any option I will drop a link for all option avalible for lib.
| Property | Modifiers | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| displayHeaderFooter? | boolean | (Optional) Whether to show the header and footer. | false | |
| footerTemplate? | string | (Optional) HTML template for the print footer. Has the same constraints and support for special classes as PDFOptions.headerTemplate. | ||
| format? | PaperFormat | (Optional) | letter. | |
| headerTemplate? | string | (Optional) HTML template for the print header. Should be valid HTML with the following classes used to inject values into them:- date formatted print date- title document title- url document location- pageNumber current page number- totalPages total pages in the document | ||
| height? | string | number | (Optional) Sets the height of paper. You can pass in a number or a string with a unit. | |
| landscape? | boolean | (Optional) Whether to print in landscape orientation. | = false | |
| margin? | PDFMargin | (Optional) Set the PDF margins. | no margins are set. | |
| omitBackground? | boolean | (Optional) Hides default white background and allows generating pdfs with transparency. | false | |
| pageRanges? | string | (Optional) Paper ranges to print, e.g. 1-5, 8, 11-13. | The empty string, which means all pages are printed. | |
| path? | string | (Optional) The path to save the file to. | the empty string, which means the PDF will not be written to disk. | |
| preferCSSPageSize? | boolean | (Optional) Give any CSS @page size declared in the page priority over what is declared in the width or height or format option. | false, which will scale the content to fit the paper size. | |
| printBackground? | boolean | (Optional) Set to true to print background graphics. | false | |
| scale? | number | (Optional) Scales the rendering of the web page. Amount must be between 0.1 and 2. | 1 | |
| timeout? | number | (Optional) Timeout in milliseconds | 30000 | |
| width? | string | number | (Optional) Sets the width of paper. You can pass in a number or a string with a unit. |
https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.pdfoptions/
Please check this link for more option