@broadpaper/forme

Browserless PDF generation for BroadPaper, via the Forme WebAssembly engine. The recommended backend.

Part of BroadPaper — an embeddable visual report designer and PDF renderer. Your users design the report in your application; BroadPaper owns the layout, the branding, the pagination and the output.

Install

npm install @broadpaper/forme

Produces PDFs with no Chromium, no Playwright and no native PDF library — a WebAssembly engine and nothing else to install. That is what makes BroadPaper deployable in a container that has no browser in it, which is most of the containers a report renderer belongs in.

import { createRegistry } from "@broadpaper/blocks";
import { renderPdfPaginated } from "@broadpaper/forme";

const { pdf, pages } = await renderPdfPaginated({ template, data, registry: createRegistry() });

Text is selectable, the fonts you supply are embedded, and output is byte-for-byte deterministic for identical input — so a document regenerated a year later is the same file, and a diff of two renders shows what actually changed.

Licensing

BroadPaper is free to evaluate, with no trial clock and nothing behind a feature gate. Install it, use every feature and evaluate it against your real data for as long as you like. Production use needs a licence.

In the software, the only difference without a licence is that generated PDFs carry an evaluation mark, and a licence removes it. Contractually, the licence is also what permits production use. No seats, no activation, no machine binding, no telemetry, and no call home at any point.

• How licensing works
• Pricing
• Licence agreement

Documentation

• Browserless PDF
• Themes and branding
• Full documentation

Support

Paid licences include email support at [email protected].

Copyright © 2026 Codingbadger Creative Limited. See LICENSE in this package, and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md for the components it ships with.