# node-html-pdf ## HTML to PDF converter that uses phantomjs ![image](examples/businesscard/businesscard.png) [Example Business Card](examples/businesscard/businesscard.pdf) -> [and its Source file](examples/businesscard/businesscard.html) [Example Receipt](http://imgr-static.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/order.pdf) ## Changelog Have a look at the releases page: https://github.com/marcbachmann/node-html-pdf/releases ## Installation Install the html-pdf utility via [npm](http://npmjs.org/): ``` $ npm install -g html-pdf ``` ## Command-line example ``` $ html-pdf test/businesscard.html businesscard.pdf ``` ## Code example ```javascript var fs = require('fs'); var pdf = require('html-pdf'); var html = fs.readFileSync('./test/businesscard.html', 'utf8'); var options = { format: 'Letter' }; pdf.create(html, options).toFile('./businesscard.pdf', function(err, res) { if (err) return console.log(err); console.log(res); // { filename: '/app/businesscard.pdf' } }); ``` ## API ```js var pdf = require('html-pdf'); pdf.create(html).toFile([filepath, ]function(err, res){ console.log(res.filename); }); pdf.create(html).toStream(function(err, stream){ stream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./foo.pdf')); }); pdf.create(html).toBuffer(function(err, buffer){ console.log('This is a buffer:', Buffer.isBuffer(buffer)); }); // for backwards compatibility // alias to pdf.create(html[, options]).toBuffer(callback) pdf.create(html [, options], function(err, buffer){}); ``` ### Footers and Headers `html-pdf` can read the header or footer either out of the `footer` and `header` config object or out of the html source. You can either set a default header & footer or overwrite that by appending a page number (1 based index) to the `id="pageHeader"` attribute of a html tag. You can use any combination of those tags. The library tries to find any element, that contains the `pageHeader` or `pageFooter` id prefix. ```html

Default header

Header on first page

Header on second page

Header on third page

Header on last page

...

Default footer

Footer on first page

Footer on second page

Footer on last page

``` ## Options ```javascript config = { // Export options "directory": "/tmp", // The directory the file gets written into if not using .toFile(filename, callback). default: '/tmp' // Papersize Options: http://phantomjs.org/api/webpage/property/paper-size.html "height": "10.5in", // allowed units: mm, cm, in, px "width": "8in", // allowed units: mm, cm, in, px - or - "format": "Letter", // allowed units: A3, A4, A5, Legal, Letter, Tabloid "orientation": "portrait", // portrait or landscape // Page options "border": "0", // default is 0, units: mm, cm, in, px - or - "border": { "top": "2in", // default is 0, units: mm, cm, in, px "right": "1in", "bottom": "2in", "left": "1.5in" }, paginationOffset: 1, // Override the initial pagination number "header": { "height": "45mm", "contents": '

Author: Marc Bachmann

' }, "footer": { "height": "28mm", "contents": { first: 'Cover page', 2: 'Second page', // Any page number is working. 1-based index default: '{{page}}/{{pages}}', // fallback value last: 'Last Page' } }, // Rendering options "base": "file:///home/www/your-asset-path/", // Base path that's used to load files (images, css, js) when they aren't referenced using a host // Zooming option, can be used to scale images if `options.type` is not pdf "zoomFactor": "1", // default is 1 // File options "type": "pdf", // allowed file types: png, jpeg, pdf "quality": "75", // only used for types png & jpeg // Script options "phantomPath": "./node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs", // PhantomJS binary which should get downloaded automatically "phantomArgs": [], // array of strings used as phantomjs args e.g. ["--ignore-ssl-errors=yes"] "localUrlAccess": false, // Prevent local file:// access by passing '--local-url-access=false' to phantomjs // For security reasons you should keep the default value if you render arbritary html/js. "script": '/url', // Absolute path to a custom phantomjs script, use the file in lib/scripts as example "timeout": 30000, // Timeout that will cancel phantomjs, in milliseconds // Time we should wait after window load // accepted values are 'manual', some delay in milliseconds or undefined to wait for a render event "renderDelay": 1000, // HTTP Headers that are used for requests "httpHeaders": { // e.g. "Authorization": "Bearer ACEFAD8C-4B4D-4042-AB30-6C735F5BAC8B" }, // To run Node application as Windows service "childProcessOptions": { "detached": true } // HTTP Cookies that are used for requests "httpCookies": [ // e.g. { "name": "Valid-Cookie-Name", // required "value": "Valid-Cookie-Value", // required "domain": "localhost", "path": "/foo", // required "httponly": true, "secure": false, "expires": (new Date()).getTime() + (1000 * 60 * 60) // e.g. expires in 1 hour } ] } ``` The full options object gets converted to JSON and will get passed to the phantomjs script as third argument. There are more options concerning the paperSize, header & footer options inside the phantomjs script.

	Stars	Issues	Version	Updated	Created
html-pdf	3,555	469	3.0.1	3 years ago	10 years ago
pdfkit2	1	0	2.0.4	6 years ago	6 years ago
pdfkitjs	13	1	0.0.5	11 years ago	11 years ago
pdfmake	11,601	324	0.2.12	a month ago	11 years ago

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