electron-pdf-js

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electron-pdf-js

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A command line tool to generate PDF from URL, HTML or Markdown files with electron.

This is a fork of the original electron-pdf package to add in additional options including enabling javascript to be executed, custom height/width of the rendering browser window, allowing use of external insecure content i.e. scripts and images and inclusion of a debug mode.

Install

npm install electron-pdf-js -g

Usage

Build PDF


  A command line tool to generate PDF from URL, HTML or Markdown files

  Options
    --help                     Show this help
    --version                  Current version of package
    -i | --input               String - The path to the HTML file or url
    -o | --output              String - The path of the output PDF
    -c | --css                 String - The path to custom CSS

    -h | --height              Integer - Height of the browser window in pixels
    -w | --width               Integer - Width of the browser window in pixels

    -d | --debug               Boolean - Whether to display the electron browser window for debugging.
                                 false - default

    -j | --javascript          Boolean - Whether to enable execution of javascript.
                                 true - default

    --insecureContent          Boolean - Whether to allow use of insecure content, i.e. external images/scripts
                                 true - default

    -b | --printBackground     Boolean - Whether to print CSS backgrounds.
                                 false - true
    -s | --printSelectionOnly  Boolean - Whether to print selection only
                                 false - default
    -l | --landscape           Boolean - true for landscape, false for portrait.
                                 false - default
    -m | --marginType          Integer - Specify the type of margins to use
                                 0 - default
                                 1 - none
                                 2 - minimum

  Usage
    $ electron-pdf <input> <output>
    $ electron-pdf <input> <output> -l

  Examples
    $ electron-pdf http://benwritesco.de ~/Desktop/test.pdf
    $ electron-pdf ./index.html ~/Desktop/index.pdf
    $ electron-pdf ./README.md ~/Desktop/README.pdf -l
    $ electron-pdf ./README.md ~/Desktop/README.pdf -l -c my-awesome-css.css

Inspired by electron-mocha

License

MIT

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npm i electron-pdf-js

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