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https://github.com/darrenhaken/node-pdf-generator

Web server to generate PDF's from HTML using wkhtmltopdf
https://github.com/darrenhaken/node-pdf-generator

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Web server to generate PDF's from HTML using wkhtmltopdf

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node-pdf-generator
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A Node web server to generate PDF's from HTML that uses the [wkhtmltopdf](http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/) command line tool.

## Installation

### Prerequisites

Install the wkhtmltopdf command line tool on your system ([download](http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list)).

Add `wkhtmltopdf` to your PATH, the server will not be able to use wkhtmltopdf without this.

### Setup

Install npm, and then do this:

npm install node-pdf-generator

## Usage

Basic usage with default configuration:

node index.js

The server can be configured using any method supported by [*nconf*](https://npmjs.org/package/nconf), for example from a bash shell:

port=1338 bindIp=0.0.0.0 node index.js