@broadpaper/server

The BroadPaper render service: either PDF backend behind HTTP, with a queue, a bearer token and a Dockerfile.

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.

Try the demo · Get a free evaluation key · Pricing

Install

npm install @broadpaper/server

POST /render, POST /render/batch and GET /health, so an application in any language can produce a PDF without hosting a JavaScript runtime itself. There is a .NET client on NuGet (BroadPaper.Client); everything else can speak the HTTP directly.

The queue is bounded, and the service refuses work rather than accepting more than it can finish — a render that is going to fail should fail at the door, not after thirty seconds of somebody's month-end.

It listens with plain HTTP and authenticates with a shared bearer token. Terminating TLS is your ingress's job. In clear text that token is the credential, so put TLS in front of it wherever a request crosses a network you do not control.

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. A free 60-day evaluation key removes it while you evaluate, and a paid licence removes it in production. Contractually, the paid licence is also what permits production use. Evaluation keys need BroadPaper 1.0.0 or later. No seats, no activation, no machine binding, no telemetry, and no call home at any point.

• How licensing works
• Get a free evaluation key
• Pricing
• Licence agreement

Documentation

• The render service
• Security
• Full documentation
• Sample application: the same app in React and Angular over one .NET back end
• How BroadPaper compares with react-pdf, pdfmake, Puppeteer and embedded report designers

Support

Paid licences include email support at [email protected].

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