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# PagedJS PDF Renderer
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Render Html to PDFs using [Pagedjs](https://gitlab.pagedmedia.org/polyfills/pagedjs) and [Puppeteer](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer).

## Installation

```
npm install -g pagedjs-cli
```

## Generating a PDF

```
pagedjs-cli ./path/to/index.html -o result.pdf
```

## Options

```
-h, --help                    output usage information
-V, --version                 output the version number
-i, --inputs [inputs]         Inputs
-o, --output [output]         Output
-d, --debug                   Show Electron Window to Debug
-l, --landscape               Landscape printing
-s, --page-size [size]        Print to Page Size [size]
-w, --width [size]            Print to Page Width [width]
-h --height [size]            Print to Page Height [weight]
-m, --page-margin [margin]    Print with margin [margin]
-n, --hyphenate [lang]        Hyphenate with language [language], defaults to "en-us"
-hi, --hypher_ignore [str]    Ignore passed element selectors, such as ".class_to_ignore, h1"
-ho, --hypher_only [str]      Only hyphenate passed elements selector, such as ".hyphenate, aside"
-e, --encoding [type]         Set the encoding of the input html, defaults to "utf-8"
-t, --timeout [ms]            Set a max timeout of [ms]
--outline-tags [tags]         Specifies that an outline should be generated for the resulting PDF document. [tags] specifies which HTML tags should be considered for that outline. "h1,h2" will trigger an outline with "h1" tags as root elements and "h2" elements as their childs.
--additional-script <script>  Additional script tags which are added to the HTML document before rendering. This is useful for adding custom pagedjs handlers. The option can be repeated. (default: [])
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```

## Hyphenation

HTML can be pre-processed with soft hyphens by the [Hypher](https://github.com/bramstein/hypher) library.

Pass the abbreviation a language code (such as `en-us` or `de`) when calling the renderer. You can install languages beyond those included the package.json using npm.


```
pagedjs-cli ./path/to/index.html --hyphenate en-us --output
```


## Development
Link and build the JS
```
npm install
npm link
npm install -g gulp

gulp watch
```

To display the output in the browser window before printing,
instead of outputting the file add the `--debug` flag.

```
pagedjs-cli ./path/to/index.html --debug
```

## Testing

Install Mocha with `npm install -g mocha`

Run the tests from the library root with the `mocha` command
```
mocha
```

## Docker
```bash
docker run -it -P -v $(pwd):/usr/src/pagedjs-cli fchasen/pagedjs-cli bash
```