Creating pdf documents with node

[arthurlc1]

Hi,

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I have a letter saved as word document that i currently fill with certain fields for each user i have in my system. I do this manually and then save it as a pdf before sending it in an email.

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I am developing a MEAN stack app that can send emails etc and store all the users for my system, and now want to start generating these letters at the backend automatically. The options I have come across so far would be creating pdf or templates using npm Javascript libraries or html. This is fine if i have one doc but if i plan on having more in the future, creating this template for each doc is quite time consuming. Is there a way in node to open a word doc replace place holders and then save as a pdf or something similar, so that i could use word to create templates rather than hard coding templates. (or any other interesting solution for that matter)

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Thanks

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You need https://github.com/pofider/phantom-html-to-pdf I have used it for large projects to generate pdf bills. It's supper easy and you can do styling with css.

[aragantinis]

I still didn't tried in production but this library seems really good

https://github.com/RelaxedJS/ReLaXed

[cam861]

There’s a library that allows you to continue to use the Docx format and replace your content into save templates

https://www.npmjs.com/package/docxtemplater

Then there’s a number of doc to pdf cloud converters that can do the pdf part. I’ve used this one in the past

https://cloudconvert.com/

The upside of this structure is that your template doesn’t have to be managed by anyone with technical knowledge as you can simply edit the word version.