Create Document (pdf-lib)

Create a new PDF document with pdf-lib

by Rapha Souza

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]"></script>
  </head>

  <body>
    <p>
      Click the button to create a new PDF document with <code>pdf-lib</code>
    </p>
    <button onclick="createPdf()">Create PDF</button>
    <p class="small">(Your browser will download the resulting file)</p>
  </body>

  <script>
    const { PDFDocument, StandardFonts, rgb } = PDFLib

    async function createPdf() {
      // Create a new PDFDocument
      const pdfDoc = await PDFDocument.create()

      // Embed the Times Roman font
      const timesRomanFont = await pdfDoc.embedFont(StandardFonts.TimesRoman)

      // Add a blank page to the document
      const page = pdfDoc.addPage()

      // Get the width and height of the page
      const { width, height } = page.getSize()

      // Draw a string of text toward the top of the page
      const fontSize = 30
      page.drawText(
        `Creating PDFs in JavaScript is awesome dgffg fdgdfgfdgfdgfdg!`,
        {
          x: 50,
          y: height - 4 * fontSize,
          size: fontSize,
          font: timesRomanFont,
          color: rgb(0, 0.53, 0.71),
        },
      )

      // Serialize the PDFDocument to bytes (a Uint8Array)
      const pdfBytes = await pdfDoc.save()

      // Trigger the browser to download the PDF document
      download(pdfBytes, "pdf-lib_creation_example.pdf", "application/pdf")
    }
  </script>
</html>

CSS

body {
  width: 100vw;
  height: 100vh;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  flex-direction: column;
}

p {
  font-family: helvetica;
  font-size: 24px;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 25px;
}

.small {
  font-family: helvetica;
  font-size: 18px;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 25px;
}

button {
  background-color: #008cba;
  border: none;
  color: white;
  padding: 15px 32px;
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 16px;
}