/node-microinvoice

Fast & elegant PDF invoice generator for Node using PDFKit. No Puppeteer

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node-microinvoice

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Fast & elegant PDF invoice generator for Node using PDFKit.

  • What Microinvoice does?
  • It builds invoices that looks good
  • Generates a PDF in less than 30ms
  • Custom Styling & Text
  • Covers exterded charsets like Russian, Polish (native PDF fonts only supports Latin)
  • Transliterate to Latin when charset is not supported (Chinese, Arabic)
  • How invoices looks like ?

Example

Why another invoice generator

This project was made for our own company Crisp. We are generating everymonth thousands of HTML invoices. Given this scale, using Puppeteer for generating HTML to PDF would be very inefficient.

As everyday, our customers were asking for PDF invoices as some accounting softwares automatically fetch invoices from emails. I could really understand their frustration. At the end, why generating PDF should be easy?

Who uses it?

Crisp

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How to install?

Include microinvoice in your package.json dependencies.

Alternatively, you can run npm install microinvoice --save.

How to use?

Import the module in your code:

var MicroInvoice = require("microinvoice");

let myInvoice = new MicroInvoice({
  // Use example from examples/index.js
});
// Render invoice as PDF
myInvoice.generate("example.pdf").then(() => {
  console.log("Invoice saved");
});