podofo.js

podofo.js is a JavaScript interface for the PoDoFo library.

Library provides functions to parse, create and modify PDF.

Why podofo.js

Podofo.js is a JavaScript library that leverages the speed and efficiency of the PoDoFo C++ library for advanced PDF manipulation.

• High Performance: Utilizes C++ under the hood for fast and efficient PDF operations.
• Comprehensive Functionality: Offers extensive features for creating, modifying, and extracting information from PDFs, including advanced operations like signing and font embedding.
• Ease of Use: Provides a developer-friendly JavaScript API, making it easy to integrate powerful PDF capabilities without needing deep C++ knowledge.
• Built-in Signing methods: Supports digital signatures, encryption.

Example

import PodofoModule from 'podofo.js'

const Podofo = await PodofoModule();

const document = new Podofo.Document();
const pages = document.getPages();

const page = pages.createPage(
                   Podofo.getPageSize(Podofo.PageSize.A4, false));

const fonts = document.getFonts();
const font = fonts.getDefaultFont();

const painter = new Podofo.Painter();
painter.setCanvas(page);
painter.setFont(font, 10);
painter.drawText("Hello world!", 0, 0);
painter.finishDrawing();

const pdf = document.save();

painter.delete();
document.delete();

API

podofo.js use WebAssembly and require loading of WebAssembly module.

import PodofoModule from 'podofo.js'

const Podofo = await PodofoModule();

All Podofo objects created with new must be deleted for the wasm memory to be released. All available functions can be found in TypeScript module definition file.