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Make PDF in Node.js Cloud API

API for working with creating PDF documents using Cloud Node.js SDK

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Overview

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How to create PDF via Node.js SDK

To create PDF, we’ll use Aspose.PDF Cloud Node.js SDK. This Cloud SDK assists Node.js programmers in developing cloud-based PDF creator, annotator, editor, and converter apps using Node.js programming language via Aspose.PDF REST API. Simply create an account at Aspose for Cloud and get your application information. Once you have the App SID & key, you are ready to give the Aspose.PDF Cloud Node.js SDK.

Package Manager Console Command


     
    npm install asposepdfcloud --save
     
     

Steps to create PDF via Cloud Node.js

Aspose.PDF Cloud developers can easily load & create PDF in just a few lines of code.

  1. Initialize the Aspose PDF API
  2. Define PdfPageChanges Object with PDF Methods
  3. Calls createPdfDocument() to generate the PDF in the cloud.
 

Create PDF using Node.js


    import credentials from "../../../Credentials/credentials.json"  with { type: "json" };    // json-file in this format: { "id": "*****", "key": "*******" }
    import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
    import path from 'node:path';
    import { PdfApi } from "../../src/api/api.js";
    import { DocumentConfig } from "../../src/models/documentConfig.js" 
    import { DocumentProperties } from "../../src/models/documentProperties.js"
    import { DocumentProperty } from "../../src/models/documentProperty.js"
    import { DisplayProperties } from "../../src/models/displayProperties.js"
    import { DefaultPageConfig } from "../../src/models/defaultPageConfig.js"
    import { Direction } from "../../src/models/direction.js";
    import { PageMode } from "../../src/models/pageMode.js";
    import { PageLayout } from "../../src/models/pageLayout.js";

    const configParams = {
        LOCAL_FOLDER: "C:\\Samples\\",
        TEMP_FOLDER : 'TempPdfCloud',
        LOCAL_RESULT_DOCUMENT_NAME: "output_sample.pdf",
        PAGE_WIDTH: 590,
        PAGE_HEIGHT: 894,
        PAGES_COUNT: 5,
    };

    const pdfApi = new PdfApi(credentials.id, credentials.key);

    const PdfPageChanges = {
        async downloadResult() {
            const fileName = path.join( configParams.TEMP_FOLDER, configParams.LOCAL_RESULT_DOCUMENT_NAME);
            const changedPdfData = await pdfApi.downloadFile(fileName);
            const filePath = path.join(configParams.LOCAL_FOLDER, configParams.LOCAL_RESULT_DOCUMENT_NAME);
            await fs.writeFile(filePath, changedPdfData.body);
            console.log("Downloaded: " + filePath);
        },

        async createPdfDocument() {
            const pdfConfig = new DocumentConfig();
            pdfConfig.pagesCount = configParams.PAGES_COUNT;
            
            pdfConfig.displayProperties = new DisplayProperties();
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.centerWindow = true;
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.hideMenuBar = true;
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.direction = Direction.L2R;
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.displayDocTitle = true;
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.hideToolBar = true;
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.hideWindowUI = true;
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.nonFullScreenPageMode = PageMode.UseThumbs;
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.pageLayout = PageLayout.TwoPageLeft;
            pdfConfig.displayProperties.pageMode = PageMode.UseThumbs;

            pdfConfig.documentProperties = new DocumentProperties();
            const docProperty = new DocumentProperty();
            docProperty.builtIn = false;
            docProperty.name = "prop1";
            docProperty.value = "Val1";

            pdfConfig.documentProperties.list = [ docProperty ];
            
            pdfConfig.defaultPageConfig = new DefaultPageConfig();
            pdfConfig.defaultPageConfig.height = configParams.CROP_HEIGHT;
            pdfConfig.defaultPageConfig.width = configParams.CROP_WIDTH;

            const response = await pdfApi.postCreateDocument(configParams.LOCAL_RESULT_DOCUMENT_NAME, pdfConfig, null, configParams.TEMP_FOLDER);
            console.log("Document #" + configParams.LOCAL_RESULT_DOCUMENT_NAME + " created.")
            return response;
        },
    };

    async function main() {
        try {
            await PdfPageChanges.createPdfDocument();
            await PdfPageChanges.downloadResult();
        } catch (error) {
            console.error("Error:", error.message);
        }
    }
 

With our Node.js library you can

Create PDF documents with Aspose.PDF Cloud Node.js SDK.

  • Add PDF document’s header & footer in text or image format.
  • Add tables & stamps (text or image) to PDF documents.
  • Append multiple PDF documents to an existing file.
  • Work with PDF attachments, annotations, & form fields.
  • Apply encryption or decryption to PDF documents & set a password.
  • Delete all stamps & tables from a page or entire PDF document.
  • Delete a specific stamp or table from the PDF document by its ID.
  • Replace single or multiple instances of text on a PDF page or from the entire document.
  • Extensive support for converting PDF documents to various other file formats.
  • Extract various elements of PDF files & make PDF documents optimized.
  • You can try out our free App to test the functionality.