A Portable Document Format (PDF) generation library targeting both the server- and client-side.

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npm install pdfjs

Maintenance Status

On life-support. No new features planned. Only gets fixes if time allows. I recommend that you use something else.

MIT License

MIT

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

[2.5.4]

Fixed

• Fixed one and two digit octals in string literals
• Added bounds checks to the lexer to prevent potential endless loops when reading PDF #327

[2.5.3]

Fixed

• Fixed Name must start with a leading slash when adding an external document to a pdfjs document, and adding that result to another pdfjs document again (caused by a null object reference due to object streams). Also fixes duplicate objects when adding external documents with pages in object streams.
• Fixed TypeScript type definition of doc.asBuffer and doc.width/doc.height
• Fixed referencing an undefined variable when throw an invalid font error

[2.5.2]

Fixed

• Fixed unhandled promise rejection in doc.asBuffer() - take two

[2.5.1]

Fixed

• Fixed unhandled promise rejection in doc.asBuffer()

[2.5.0]

Fixed

• Fixed footer position after changing it #283
• Fixed graphical state not reset hwen using templates (could lead to rotated/translated pages) #287
• Fixed importing fonts in ESM context (in TS projects) #309

Changed

• Added support for multiple table header rows #293

[2.4.7]

Fixed

• Fixed error when rendering page headers close to the bottom of the page #213
• Fixed reading PDF Filter property when being of type array #268

[2.4.6] - 2021-08-23

Fixed

• Fixed images not adding page break

[2.4.5] - 2021-07-29

Fixed

• Fixed PDF name parsing to accept empty names (/) #260

[2.4.4] - 2021-06-22

Fixed

• Allow any whitespace in object streams (while parsing PDFs) #253
• Fix main field for jsDelivr #256

[2.4.3] - 2021-04-22

Fixed

• Fixed escape logic of PDF names #252

[2.4.2] - 2020-10-23

Fixed

• Updated PDF parser to ignore comments

[2.4.1] - 2020-08-08

Fixed

• Reverted the broken change made in 2.4.0 - sorry for that!

[2.4.0] - 2020-08-08

Unpublished.

Changed

• Corrected how text is encoded to the PDF

[2.3.9] - 2020-06-09

Fixed

• Fixed Lexer is not defined error when parsing a hex string #215
• Added an error when multiple headers are added to a table #213

[2.3.8] - 2020-05-22

Fixed

• Updated PDF parser to be more forgiving to out of place whitespace in PDF files

[2.3.7] - 2020-05-15

Fixed

• Update PDF parser to accept whitespace before endstream keywords
• Update PDF parser to ignore trailer prev pointers that point to the document beginning (offset = 0)

[2.3.6] - 2020-04-28

Fixed

• allow any whitespace between obj version and rev numbers when parsing PDF (fixes parsing of some PDF)
• trim whitespace before starting to parse a PDF object (fixes parsing of MS print to PDF documents)
• fix color space of embedded grayscale JPEGs #210

[2.3.5] - 2020-03-03

Fixed

• fix possible lexer.isWhiteSpace is not a function errors when parsing PDFs
• fix table header position when rendered right after page header #202

[2.3.4] - 2020-01-30

Fixed

• include ExtGState and Shading resources from external PDFs when adding them as templates
• fix various table page break issues #191

[2.3.3] - 2020-01-07

Fixed

• fix text.br()s not being added if a page break happens right at their position #159
• fix font opts inheritance when creating a text object from a text object (.text('...').text('...')) #175
• fix various EOL and undefined props errors when parsing existing PDFs
• extend Font.isFont check to accept fonts that are not an instance of Font, but still provide the expected font methods #182

[2.3.2] - 2019-10-09

Fixed

• Fix using pages documents with nested /Pages objects as templates #150

[2.3.1] - 2019-09-11

Fixed

• add missing font type definitions #153

[2.3.0] - 2019-05-07

Changed

• setTemplate now accepts an second optional parameter indicating whether the templates is to used for the first page only #126

[2.2.0] - 2019-04-02

Fixed

• Pages from external documents should always be added with their original size #111
• Fix parsing documents with nested /Pages objects #117
• Fix parsing multi-line PDF strings #117

Changed

• opentype.js has been updated to 0.11.0, which has a minor effect on kerning distances

Added

• end option for doc.asBuffer #118

[2.1.0] - 2018-09-22

Changed

• When providing less cells than a row has columns, instead of throwing, autofill the row with empty cells #101

Fixed

• Vertical table border in combinaton with colspan #100
• Fix cyclic loop when parsing PDFs with TOCs #112
• Fix to, when adding other PDFs (either as image or whole pages), add objects only once #109
• Fix parsing of escaped characters in strings #114

[2.0.0] - 2018-06-19

Version 2.0.0 is a re-write. The implementation is expected to settle with the current approach of streaming layouting with smart content chunking, which allows for having a small memory footprint even when creating a PDF document with thousands of pages.

2.0.0 requires Node >= 7. If you get an error on require('pdfjs') you are probably using an older Node.js version, which can be fixed by updating Node.js or by running pdfjs through a transpiler like babel.

Changed

• The outline method now accepts an outline ID (number) as a valid input for the parent parameter

Fixed

• Fixed OTF font browser usage (new Font(src) now properly accepts both Node.js Buffer and ArrayBuffer as input)

[2.0.0-alpha.8] - 2018-05-13

Added

• Document outline support

Removed

• creating AFM fonts from JSON (new Font(require('pdfjs/font/Helvetica.json')) - instead, load the font directly: require('pdfjs/font/Helvetica'))

[2.0.0-alpha.7] - 2018-05-03

Deprecated

• creating AFM fonts is deprecated new Font(require('pdfjs/font/Helvetica.json')), instead load instances directly require('pdfjs/font/Helvetica')

Added

• Added type definitions for TypeScript #91
• Added support for parsing Object Streams

Changed

• Expose Document class instead an anonymous class #92
• Improved ergonomics of loading AFM fonts (require('pdfjs/font/Helvetica') instead of new Font(require('pdfjs/font/Helvetica.json')))
• The font option when creating a new Document is now optional and defaults to Helvetica

Fixed

• Tests should now run on windows #78

[2.0.0-alpha.6] - 2018-03-27

Fixed

• fix kerning for OTF fonts #84

[2.0.0-alpha.5] - 2018-03-26

Added

• implement font kerning (with a minor limitation)

Fixed

• fixed PDF text not being printed when using macOS print dialog #83 (as a consequence, set PDF version of documents to 1.6)

[2.0.0-alpha.4] - 2018-03-21

Fixed

• fix combination of multiple TTF/OTF fonts in one line #81

[2.0.0-alpha.3] - 2017-05-12

Added

• Text decoration underline and strikethrough

Fixed

• fix font re-use to not include glyphs from other documents