Pdfmake: Save pdf document in the filesystem

[almoraleslopez]

Hello.

I'm working on a solution for getting the pdf generated to be saved on the server.

I have pdmake working on client side with angularjs. On the backend I hava nodejs and express.

My intention is to send an email with the pdf attached to it.

Any ideas for having this working?

Thanks... and really good work with pdfmake!

[bpampuch]

Hello,

Take a look at the examples folder - there are samples for NodeJS. I'd suggest reading the most trivial example to see the difference between client and server side.

Basically you'll need a directory with fonts (examples/fonts contains Roboto, but you can use other fonts as well)

// create a font-declaration object pointing to font files
// by default pdfmake uses Roboto, if you need more fonts, add them here
var fonts = {
    Roboto: {
        normal: 'fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf',
        bold: 'fonts/Roboto-Medium.ttf',
        italics: 'fonts/Roboto-Italic.ttf',
        bolditalics: 'fonts/Roboto-Italic.ttf'
    }
};

// then you create a PdfPrinter object
var PdfPrinter = require('pdfmake');
var printer = new PdfPrinter(fonts);

// and you pass the doc-definition-object to createPdfKitDocument method
var docDefinition = {
    content: [
        'First paragraph',
        'Another paragraph, this time a little bit longer to make sure, this line will be divided into at least two lines'
    ]
};

var pdfDoc = printer.createPdfKitDocument(docDefinition);

// pdfDoc is a stream so you can pipe it to the file system
var fs = require('fs');
pdfDoc.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('pdfs/basics.pdf'));
pdfDoc.end();

I hope this solves your problem.

[juppwerner]

Hi,

also thanks for this great piece of code!!!

I need to save the generated PDF on the client (phonegap app) using the FileSystem API.

Something like here:
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.5.0/cordova_file_file.md.html#FileWriter (Full Example FileWriter)

What is the method to get the 'raw' data after pdfMake.createPdf(docDefinition)?

Thanks in advance.

[kstef]

Maybe you can try to get the ArrayBuffer produced by the following:
pdfMake.createPdf(dd).getBuffer(callback function);

callback function(cb){
Save(cb.toArrayBuffer());
}

worked on some tests that i performed :)

[bpampuch]

@kstef solution is exactly what I do in the library

[jimmyting44]

@juppwerner did you figure out how to save the pdf through phonegap's FileWriter?

[bestconsultant]

Hi,
Is it possible to get the pdf file result encoded in a base64 string? How would that work?
Thanks!

[bestconsultant]

Gonna answer this myself. I used a npm module called base64-stream and here is the code :

var base64 = require('base64-stream');
var base64stream = pdfDoc.pipe(base64.encode());
pdfDoc.end();

var tempFileBase64 = ''

base64stream.on('data',function(buffer){
var part = buffer.toString();
    tempFileBase64 += part;
    console.log('process data ' + part);
});

base64streamEvaluations.on('end',function(){
  console.log('final output ' + tempFileBase64);
});

Thank you myself! ;)

[juppwerner]

Thanks for letting us know!

Regards

Joachim Werner

Am 9. Juni 2016 08:53:03 MESZ, schrieb flaurian [email protected]:

Gonna answer this myself. I used a npm module called base64-stream and
here is the code :

var base64 = require('base64-stream');
var base64stream = pdfDoc.pipe(base64.encode());
pdfDoc.end();

var tempFileBase64 = ''

base64stream.on('data',function(buffer){
var part = buffer.toString();
   tempFileBase64 += part;
   console.log('process data ' + part);
});

base64streamEvaluations.on('end',function(){
 console.log('final output ' + tempFileBase64);
});

Thank you myself! ;)

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[SaidMarar]

i can't use pdfMake.createPdfv0.1.24 in NODEJS so i used createPdfKitDocument, and i don't know how to get the arrayBuffer ... anyone here can help please