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bpampuch/pdfmake: Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript

bpampuch/pdfmake: Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript

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PDF document generation library for server-side and client-side in pure JavaScript.

Check out the playground and examples.

Features

  • line-wrapping,
  • text-alignments (left, right, centered, justified),
  • numbered and bulleted lists,
  • tables and columns
* auto/fixed/star-sized widths, * col-spans and row-spans, * headers automatically repeated in case of a page-break, * snaking columns (newspaper-style layout where content flows column-to-column),
  • images and vector graphics,
  • convenient styling and style inheritance,
  • page headers and footers:
* static or dynamic content, * access to current page number and page count,
  • background-layer,
  • page dimensions and orientations,
  • margins,
  • document sections,
  • custom page breaks,
  • font embedding,
  • support for complex, multi-level (nested) structures,
  • table of contents,
  • helper methods for opening/printing/downloading the generated PDF,
  • setting of PDF metadata (e.g. author, subject).

Documentation

Documentation URL: https://pdfmake.github.io/docs/

Source of documentation: https://github.com/pdfmake/docs Improvements are welcome!

Building from sources

using npm:

git clone https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake.git
cd pdfmake
npm install
npm run build

using yarn:

git clone https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake.git
cd pdfmake
yarn
yarn run build

License

MIT

Authors

pdfmake is based on a truly amazing library pdfkit (credits to @devongovett).

Thanks to all contributors.

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