fill-xpdf
v0.0.3
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Fill out pdf forms using XFDF
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fill-xpdf
A node module to fill out PDF forms using XFDF model format (utf8 compatible).
It uses pdftk to fill out PDF forms.
Installation
npm install fill-xpdf
Dependencies
You need to have the pdftk
binary in your PATH.
Install on Mac OSX
- To install PDFtk use the official installer or if you have homebrew-cask installed you can run
brew cask install pdftk
Install on Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install pdftk
Usage example (with express)
const fillPdf = require("fill-xpdf");
const formData = { FieldName: 'Text to put into form field' };
const pdfTemplatePath = "templates.pdf";
app.get('/filled_form.pdf', (req, res) => {
fillPdf.generateXPdf(formData, pdfTemplatePath, function(err, output) {
if ( !err ) {
res.type("application/pdf");
res.send(output);
}
});
});
Passing Custom Arguments to pdftk
For more specific uses, you can also pass some extra arguments to pdftk
. It is done by
specifying them as an array, given as a third argument of the fillPdf
function.
For instance, if you want to make the output PDF not editable anymore, you can append the
flatten
argument such as:
const fillPdf = require('fill-xpdf');
const extraArgs = ['flatten'];
fillPdf.generateXPdf(formData, pdfTemplatePath, extraArgs, (err, output) => {
// ...
});
Take a look on man pdftk
to get a list of all available arguments.
Acknowledgements
Based on fill-pdf