Export data to PDF / DOCX

[Deep SiderZ]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to export data to PDF / DOCX files. At present I use a HTML/CSS template that I fill with my data with ejs package. Then when this template is ready I use Libre Office (with soffice command in headless mode) to export it to PDF or DOCX format. It works but the result is ugly ...

I would like to be able to have a beautiful result. I want to put pictures, tables, colorized texts in the output format.

Do you have an idea on how to achieve this ? It can be a library (one for PDF and one for DOCX or better, juste one for both) or a program that I can exec from my nodejs app. Or it can also be a solution in another language than javascript.

Thank you for your help !

[Matt]

Try using node-phantom-simple (or one of the drivers, like slimerjs). It will look exactly like it would in a browser, even supporting SVG graphs. For images you can even generate data: URLs so you only need to load a single HTML file.

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[Boris Matos Morillo]

you should try https://github.com/jsreport/jsreport , which you can easily consume from your node js app 🙂

[Witold Szczerba]

P.S. When I said creating the templates in DOCX, I meant using the LibreOffice. Since it is going to be used to render, you will see exactly how it is going to look like.  As a bonus, non technical stuff can create and maintain these templates.

07.05.2017 11:47 "Witold Szczerba" <witold...@gmail.com> napisał(a):

I would try to create these templates in. DOCX instead of HTML. That would give you much better control. The DOCX format is just a ZIP file with XML inside, so manipulating the content should not be a huge problem. 

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[Witold Szczerba]

I would try to create these templates in. DOCX instead of HTML. That would give you much better control. The DOCX format is just a ZIP file with XML inside, so manipulating the content should not be a huge problem. 

05.05.2017 03:53 "Deep SiderZ" <alexis...@gmail.com> napisał(a):

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[Matt]

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Witold Szczerba <witold...@gmail.com> wrote:

P.S. When I said creating the templates in DOCX, I meant using the LibreOffice. Since it is going to be used to render, you will see exactly how it is going to look like.  As a bonus, non technical stuff can create and maintain these templates.

Interestingly I actually wrote about doing this sort of thing 16 years ago (when it was called OpenOffice) here: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/02/07/openoffice.html - some of that document remains relevant to the format today, so may be useful.