A tool that generates a PDF from an re-usable HTML template
Several project require PDF report generation with included images and graphs, such as application validation/verification via automated testing, templated reports, customized documents, etc. Therefore the need for a service to automate this workflow is desired.
The component will take a template, render with parameters, apply a set of style sheets, include images, and output a PDF file.
- Must include dynamic templates (user should be able to choose template)
- Should be able to update template without having to update software
- Must be able to specify a header and footer
- Must be able to include images
- Must be able to include CSS styling
This tool uses handlebars.js for template rendering. For documentation about allowed constructs see:
- Expressions: http://handlebarsjs.com/expressions.html
- Blocks: http://handlebarsjs.com/block_helpers.html
This tool uses html-pdf for generating a PDF from html content. For more documentation about configuration options, see:
https://github.com/marcbachmann/node-html-pdf#options
- node (carbon)
> npm install pdfr
> git clone https://github.com/Codebiosys/pdfr.git
> cd pdfr
> npm install yarn && yarn
> yarn link
Remember to run yarn link so that the command line script is properly
installed for testing during development