PDFKitJs

Create PDFs using plain old HTML+CSS. Uses wkhtmltopdf on the back-end which renders HTML using Webkit.

Hightly inspired by PDFKit written in Ruby

Install

PDFKit

npm install pdfkit

wkhtmltopdf

Hello

Usage

// PDFKit support multiples types (url, file, html) and any options for wkhtmltopdf
// run `wkhtmltopdf --extended-help` for a full list of options
var PDFKit = require('pdfkitjs');
 
pdf = new PDFKit('url', 'http://google.com');
 
pdf.toFile('google.pdf', function (err, file) {
  console.log('File ' + file + ' written');
});

API

PDFKit(type, url_file_or_html[, options[, spawnOptions[, logger]]])

options : Object corresponding on wkhtmltopdf arguments. run wkhtmltopdf --extended-help for a full list of options

spawnOptions : Options passed to child_process.spawn except exec who is the path to the wkhtmltopdf binary. (Default: wkhtmltopdf)

• url

new PDFKit('url', 'http://google.com')

• file

new PDFKit('file', 'path/to/some.html')

• html

new PDFKit('html', '<h1>Hello</h1>')

Logger

You can pass a logger object that implemnts log, warn, debug methods. Default logger:

var baseLogger = {
  log: console.log,
  warn: console.warn,
  debug: console.log
};

To silent all logs, you can pass false.

Output

TODO

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Loïc Mahieu.