html-boilerplate-pdf

Node module that converts HTML body documents strings to PDFs.

Using same process and similar options to html-boilerplate-pdf

The PDF looks great because it is styled by HTML5 Boilerplate. What? - Yes! Your HTML is pushed into the HTML5 Boilerplate index.html. Phantomjs renders the page and saves it to a PDF. You can even customise the style of the PDF by passing an optional path to your CSS and you can pre-process your html file before it is converted to a PDF by passing in a pre-processing function, for templating.

Getting started

npm install html-boilerplate-pdf

Example usage

htmlBoilerplatePDF().from.string(html).to("/path/to/document.pdf", function () {
  console.log("Done")
})

Options

Pass an options object (htmlBoilerplatePDF({/* options */})) to configure the output.

options.phantomPath

Type: String Default value: Path provided by phantomjs module

Path to phantom binary

options.cssPath

Type: String Default value: [module path]/pdf.css

Path to custom CSS file, relative to the current directory

options.highlightCssPath

Type: String Default value: [module path]/highlight.css

Path to custom highlight CSS file (for code highlighting), relative to the current directory

options.paperFormat

Type: String Default value: A4

'A3', 'A4', 'A5', 'Legal', 'Letter' or 'Tabloid'

options.paperOrientation

Type: String Default value: portrait

'portrait' or 'landscape'

options.paperBorder

Type: String Default value: 1cm

Supported dimension units are: 'mm', 'cm', 'in', 'px'

options.runningsPath

Type: String Default value: runnings.js

Path to CommonJS module which sets the page header and footer (see runnings.js)

options.renderDelay

Type: Number Default value: 1000

Delay in millis before rendering the PDF (give HTML and CSS a chance to load)

options.preProcessHtml

Type: Function Default value: function () { return through() }

A function that returns a through stream that transforms the HTML before it is converted to PDF.

API

from.path(path, opts) / from(path, opts)

Create a readable stream from path and pipe to html-boilerplate-pdf. path can be a single path or array of paths.

from.string(string)

Create a readable stream from string and pipe to html-boilerplate-pdf. string can be a single string or array of strings.

concat.from.paths(paths, opts)

Create and concatinate readable streams from paths and pipe to html-boilerplate-pdf.

concat.from.strings(strings, opts)

Create and concatinate readable streams from strings and pipe to html-boilerplate-pdf.

to.path(path, cb) / to(path, cb)

Create a writeable stream to path and pipe output from html-boilerplate-pdf to it. path can be a single path, or array of output paths if you specified an array of inputs. The callback function cb will be invoked when data has finished being written.

to.buffer(opts, cb)

Create a concat-stream and pipe output from html-boilerplate-pdf to it. The callback function cb will be invoked when the buffer has been created.

to.string(opts, cb)

Create a concat-stream and pipe output from html-boilerplate-pdf to it. The callback function cb will be invoked when the string has been created.

More examples

From string to path

var htmlBoilerplatePDF = require("html-boilerplate-pdf")
 
var md = "foo===\n* bar\n* baz\n\nLorem ipsum dolor sit"
  , outputPath = "/path/to/doc.pdf"
 
htmlBoilerplatePDF().from.string(html).to(outputPath, function () {
  console.log("Created", outputPath)
})

From multiple paths to multiple paths

var htmlBoilerplatePDF = require("html-boilerplate-pdf")
 
var htmlDocs = ["home.html", "about.html", "contact.html"]
  , pdfDocs = mdDocs.map(function (d) { return "out/" + d.replace(".html", ".pdf") })
 
htmlBoilerplatePDF().from(htmlDocs).to(pdfDocs, function () {
  pdfDocs.forEach(function (d) { console.log("Created", d) })
})

Concat from multiple paths to single path

var htmlBoilerplatePDF = require("html-boilerplate-pdf")
 
var htmlDocs = ["chapter1.html", "chapter2.html", "chapter3.html"]
  , bookPath = "/path/to/book.pdf"
 
htmlBoilerplatePDF().concat.from(htmlDocs).to(bookPath, function () {
  console.log("Created", bookPath)
})

Transform html before conversion

var htmlBoilerplatePDF = require("html-boilerplate-pdf")
  , split = require("split")
  , through = require("through")
  , duplexer = require("duplexer")
 
function preProcessHTML () {
  // Split the input stream by lines
  var splitter = split()
 
  // Replace occurrences of "foo" with "bar"
  var replacer = through(function (data) {
    this.queue(data.replace(/foo/g, "bar") + "\n")
  })
 
  splitter.pipe(replacer)
  return duplexer(splitter, replacer)
}
 
htmlBoilerplatePDF({preProcessHTML: preProcessHTML})
  .from("/path/to/document.html")
  .to("/path/to/document.pdf", function () { console.log("Done") })

CLI interface

Installation

To use html-boilerplate-pdf as a standalone program from the terminal run

npm install -g html-boilerplate-pdf

Usage

Usage: html-boilerplate-pdf [options] <html-file-path>
 
Options:
 
  -h, --help                             output usage information
  -V, --version                          output the version number
  <html-file-path>                       Path of the html file to convert
  -p, --phantom-path [path]              Path to phantom binary
  -h, --runnings-path [path]             Path to runnings (header, footer)
  -s, --css-path [path]                  Path to custom CSS file
  -z, --highlight-css-path [path]        Path to custom highlight-CSS file
  -f, --paper-format [format]            'A3', 'A4', 'A5', 'Legal', 'Letter' or 'Tabloid'
  -r, --paper-orientation [orientation]  'portrait' or 'landscape'
  -b, --paper-border [measurement]       Supported dimension units are: 'mm', 'cm', 'in', 'px'
  -d, --render-delay [millis]            Delay before rendering the PDF (give HTML and CSS a chance to load)
  -o, --out [path]                       Path of where to save the PDF