A Portable Document Format (PDF) generation library targeting both the server- and client-side.

Documentation

npm install rkusa/[email protected]

2.0.0 Breaking Changes

Version 2.0.0 is a re-write. The implementation is expected to settle with the current approach of streaming layouting with smart content chunking, which allows for having a small memory footprint even when creating a PDF document with thousands of pages.

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Features

• Text (with common formatting options)
• Images (JPEGs, other PDFs)
• Tables (fixed layout, header row)
• Header & Footer
• AFM fonts && OTF font embedding (as CID fonts, i.e., support for fonts with large character sets)
• Add existing PDFs (merge them or add them as page templates)

If you are missing a feature, feel free to submit a PR or to ask for it.

History

• v2.x - streaming layouting with smart content chunking
• v1.x - calculate whole document layout upfront
• v0.x - in-memory layouting with rollbacks

MIT License

MIT