Simple and lightweight HTML to text conversion using Node and PhantomJS.
npm install phantom-html2pdf
- PhantomJS
- Async
- Temp
- Debug
The API exposes a single function 'convert'. Using this function, you can input a multitude of settings, which are further specified below:
var pdf = require('phantom-html2pdf');
pdf.convert(options, function(err, result) {
/* Using a buffer and callback */
result.toBuffer(function(returnedBuffer) {});
/* Using a readable stream */
var stream = result.toStream();
/* Using the temp file path */
var tmpPath = result.getTmpPath();
/* Using the file writer and callback */
result.toFile("/path/to/file.pdf", function() {});
});Calling convert() requires an options object, which includes the following definitions:
{
"html" : "Path to HTML file",
"css" : "Path to additional CSS file",
"js" : "Path to additional JavaScript file",
"runnings" : "Path to runnings file. Check further below for explanation.",
"paperSize" : "Two ways to do this, see below",
"deleteOnAction" : true/false (Deletes the created temp file once you access it via toBuffer() or toFile()),
"runningsArgs": Object (You can pass an object to the runnings file when you have wrapped it with a function)
}Instead of paths, one can also provide properly escaped source code.
Either supply a paper format, orientation and border (this is the default)
{format: 'A4', orientation: 'portrait', border: '1cm'}Or supply a page width, height and border.
{width: '3in', height: '2in', border: '0.5in'}See link below for accepted units and formats:
http://phantomjs.org/api/webpage/property/paper-size.html
You can also wrap your runnings configuration with a function and pass runningsArgs.
On Macs the generated PDF is going to be a bitmap, however it works perfectly fine on Linux and Windows Servers. So be careful when developing and testing on Macs; it's going to work in production :-)