pdf report with sails.js

[Leonan Luppi]

Hello,

Someone has a tutorial to generate PDF reports with sails.js?

Thanks!

[Alberto Souza]

I have an application running with "wkhtmltopdf" for create certifications from html templates in one service and use it on controller ... i think this can help you

Links:

https://github.com/ABS-org/iv-mostra-certificator/blob/master/api/services/PDFService.js  

https://github.com/ABS-org/iv-mostra-certificator/blob/master/api/controllers/CertificadoController.js

it is not the best way but works ...

Alberto Souza

[John Tomaselli]

I've used PDFKit,A PDF generation library for Node.js.

Check out some of the 

[documentation and examples](http://devongovett.github.com/pdfkit/docs/getting_started.html) to see for yourself!

From Controller 

var PDFDocument = require('pdfkit');

TWOController= {

  

    createPDF: function (req,twoid) {

        console.log('-----success--------updateWrapped---cambriai----calibri-------------pdfCreate-----params------------', req.params.all());//,poid,req.body)

        var objid = req.body.id;

        console.log('-----success--------updateWrapped---cambriai----calibri-------------pdfCreate-----params------------',twoid)

        var par = req.param;

        doc = new PDFDocument;

        doc.info['Title'] = 'PTTest';

        doc.info['Author'] = 'John Tomaselli';

        doc.registerFont('Palatino', './api/fonts/PalatinoBold.ttf');

        doc.registerFont('cambria', './api/fonts/Cambria.ttc');

        var startcol = 45;

...

       // get signature image

        doc.image('./api/uploads/dk.jpg', startcol-12, linePos-60)

        //line cap settings

        doc.lineWidth(2);

        doc.lineCap('butt')

            .moveTo(startcol, linePos)

            .lineTo(startcol + 155, linePos)

            .stroke()

            .moveTo(startcol2, linePos)

            .lineTo(startcol2 + 75, linePos)

            .stroke();

        linePos += 2;// 5;

        doc.font('Palatino', 12).fillColor("blue").text(' Authorized Signature ', startcol, linePos).text('Date', startcol2, linePos);

        doc.write('./api/uploads/two/two' + twoid + '.pdf');

    },

[Leonan Luppi]

I had been seen this module... and I got it but if I want to display this PDF in the browser, do you have one solution for?