pdf-document-maker
v1.0.6
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Package to handle Document PDF generation
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PDF Document Maker
Introduction
PDF Document Maker is a library to handle PDF generation. It's a wrapper of puppeteer and puppeteer-report. It handles handlebars templates and introduces some nice features like a preset of helpers and include function on templates.
Installation
Use
npm install pdf-document-maker
or
yarn add pdf-document-maker
Depending on your package manager. At the moment the library uses [email protected]
How to use
Page scaling is set to 1, so 100px = 26mm. Page structure:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8'/>
<title></title>
<style>
<!-- Your css here -->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<header id="header"></header>
<main id="main"></main>
<footer id="footer"></footer>
</body>
</html>IMPORTANT: Do not set margins to these elements! Use padding instead.
Class usage:
const pdfMaker = new PdfDocumentMaker();
const pdfResult = await pdfMaker.getPdf(filePath, data, options);Features
Helpers
List of helpers included:
- date: Angular date pipe like
- number: Angular number pipe like
- lowercase: set input as lowercase
- uppercase: set input as uppercase
- escape: set a
-if the value in input is null or undefined.
Include
You can use include function inside the templates. To use it you must use this syntax:
##INCLUDE:<template-name>##
inside your template.
IMPORTANT: include function works only on first level (optimization issues).
Page filler
You can use .pageFiller class inside template to have an element that covers the remaining part of the page.