svg-paper
The world's most maintainable way to create paper-printable documents
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Workflows
You can print beautiful and maintainable paper documents by following steps.
- Design the document with Adobe XD, Figma, or something
- Export it as SVG
- Embed SVG into your HTML and fix it with svg-paper on client side
- That's it
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Installation
CDN
You can get the built assets from jsDelivr.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/svg-paper/dist/svg-paper.min.css"><script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/svg-paper/dist/svg-paper.min.js"></script>npm
Of course you also can install via npm.
$ npm install svg-paperHow to prepare SVG template
See this doc
Basic usage
First, just embed SVG content in .paper element like following.
<body>
<div class="paper">
<svg>...</svg>
</div>
</body>Next, load svg-paper[.min].js with <script> tag or import/require svg-pager[.min].js as a module.
<script src="svg-paper.min.js"></script>
<script>
const paper = new SvgPaper()
// ...
</script>or
import SvgPaper from 'svg-paper'
// or
// const SvgPaper = require('svg-paper')
const paper = new SvgPaper()Then you can replace or adjust SVG contents in DOM easily with svg-paper like following.
paper
// replace placeholder to actual value
.replace('%placeholder1%', 'Actual value 1')
// ... and more
// set max width to 1000
// in the other words, if actual width of the content is bigger than 1000 it shrinks automatically
.adjustText('#selector1', 1000)
// set max width to 800 and brings the element #selector2 to the center of 800 width area
.adjustText('#selector2', 800, 'middle')
// of course you can bring it to the end
.adjustText('#selector3', 800, 'end')
// automatically wrap or shrink actual content so that it fits within the specified area (600 x 300)
.adjustTetxarea('#selector4', 600, 300)
// you can pass some additional args
.adjustTextarea('#selector5',
600, // width
300, // height
1.2, // lineHeight : default is 1.2 times font-size
0.5, // paddingX : default is 0.5 times font-size
0.5, // paddingY : default is 0.5 times font-size
false // nowrap : default is false. if true, content will not be wrapped
)
// finally, apply all replacing and adjusting to DOM
.apply()Beautify preview screen
To beautify preview screen, you should add only 3 lines to your HTML
<head>
...
<link rel="stylesheet" href="svg-paper.min.css"> <!-- here -->
<style>@page { size: A4 }</style> <!-- here -->
</head>
<body>
<div class="paper A4"> <!-- here -->
<svg>...</svg>
</div>
</body>Just load svg-paper.min.css (or svg-paper.css), in <head> set @page size, and set the class of .paper element to specify page size.
Available page sizes are:
-
A3A3 landscape -
A4A4 landscape -
A5A5 landscape -
letterletter landscape -
legallegal landscape
Passing variables from back-end to front-end
svg-paper depends on DOM, so in most cases you have to pass variables to be replaced with placeholders in template from back-end to front-end.
The most easy ways is just passing replacements and text/textarea adjustment parameters to front-end as JSON string.
PHP and Twig example
// Controller
public function paperAction($id)
{
$model = $repository->findById($id);
return $this->render('paper.html.twig', [
'svg' => file_get_contents('/path/to/paper.svg'),
'replacements' => [
'%name%' => $model->name,
// ... and more
],
]);
}{# paper.html.twig #}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="svg-paper.min.css">
<style>@page { size: A4 }</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="paper A4">
{{ svg|raw }}
</div>
<div data-replacements="{{ replacements|json_encode }}"></div>
<script src="svg-paper.min.js"></script>
<script src="your-script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>// your-script.js
const paper = new SvgPaper()
const replacements = $('[data-replacements]').data('replacements')
for (let [search, replacement] of Object.entries(replacements)) {
paper.replace(search, replacement)
}
paper.apply()Tips
Hiding content before placeholders are replaced
svg-paper replaces placeholders and adjust text/textarea after DOM loaded, so the content before replaced and adjusted will be shown on the screen for a moment
This problem is very easy to solve just by adding some "blinder" layer on the content and disappear it after .apply()
<body>
<div id="blinder" style="width:100vw; height:100vh; background-color:#ccc"></div>
<div class="paper">
<svg>...</svg>
</div>
</body>paper.apply()
document.querySelector('#blinder').style.display = 'none'PDF generation
You can easily print to PDF directly by using electron-pdf.
$ npm install --global electron-pdf
$ electron-pdf your-document.html your-document.pdfEnjoy!