Nuxt PDF [WIP]

Looking for new maintainer. Since i don't work in the nuxt universe as much anymore, please write to me if you wish to take over this project.

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
• 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