Nuxt PDF [WIP]

Generate PDF files directly from your content on your website, can be used for offline downloadable documentation pages.

Features

• Create PDF from Vue template
• Automatic PDF Generation
• Customizable Metadata
• Supports (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, Letter, Legal, Tabloid)
• Support dynamic routes (Nuxt Generate)
• Support dynamic titles (from tag)
• I18n support for specific languages
• Generates as you edit (Automatic PDF regeneration)
• For NUXT 2.x and higher

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• Development
• License

Installation

npm install nuxt-pdf --save-dev

or

yarn add -D nuxt-pdf

Usage

• Add the class .page to your page to display when printing, for formatting, add classes: .a1, .a2, .a3, .a4, .a5, .letter, .legal, or .tabloid

• Add nuxt-pdf to the buildModules section of your nuxt.config.js file:

buildModules: ['nuxt-pdf']

• Add a custom configuration with the pdf property.

You can see the available options in the example configuration

// nuxt.config.js

{
  buildModules: [
    'nuxt-pdf'
  ],
  pdf: {
    // custom configuration
  }
}

Configuration

// nuxt.config.js

{
  pdf: {
    /*
    * Output folder for generated pdf.
    */
    dir: "static",

    /*
    * Function options for page.pdf([options])
    * Read more: https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v2.0.0&show=api-pagepdfoptions
    */
    pdf: {
      // Change the format of the pdfs.
      format: "A4", // This is optional 
      printBackground: true // Include background in pdf.
    }

    /*
    * Function options for page.setViewport([options])
    * Read more: https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v2.0.0&show=api-pagesetviewportviewport
    */
    viewport: {
      // override the default viewport
      width: 1280,
      height: 800
    },

    /*
    * Enable i18n support.
    */
    i18n: false,

    /*
     * Add options to the puppeteer launch.
     * Read more: https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v2.0.0&show=api-puppeteerlaunchoptions
     */
    puppeteer: {
      // Puppeteer options here... E.g. env: {}
    },

    /*
    * PDF Meta configuration. (inspired by vue-meta)
    */
    meta: {
      title: "My Module",
      titleTemplate: "Documentation ─ %s",

      author: "Christian Hansen",
      subject: "Example",

      producer: "Example Inc.",

      // Control the date the file is created.
      creationDate: new Date(),

      keywords: ["pdf", "nuxt"]
    },

    /*
    * PDF generation routes. (expanding nuxt.generate)
    */
    routes: [
      {
        // Output file inside output folder.
        file: "downloads/documentation.pdf",

        // Route to content that should be converted into pdf.
        route: "docs",

        // Default option is to remove the route after generation so it is not accessible
        keep: true, // defaults to false

        // Specifify language for pdf. (Only when i18n is enabled!)
        locale: 'da',

        // Override global meta with individual meta for each pdf.
        meta: {
          title: "Home"
        },
        pdf: {
          // route specific pdf options
          landscape: true // Include background in pdf.
        },
        viewport: {
          // route specific viewport
          width: 1280,
          height: 800
        },
      },
      {
        // Output: static/downloads/documentation-vue.pdf
        file: "downloads/documentation-vue.pdf",

        // Will generate route https://localhost:3000/docs/vue
        route: "docs/vue",

        // Title will be Documentation - Vue
        meta: {
          title: "Vue"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

• PDF generation

PDFs will be generated when running nuxt build, nuxt generate or in development nuxt dev

Development

$ git clone https://github.com/ch99q/nuxt-pdf.git

$ cd nuxt-pdf

$ yarn

License

MIT License