var path = require('path');
var Printer = require('pdfmake');
// fonts are available in the test-env/tests/fonts path, this is a helper
function fontPath(file) { retrun path.resolve('pdfmake', 'test-env', 'tests', 'fonts', file);
}
// required font setup, requires that you link to the fonts shipped with npm
var fontDescriptors = { Roboto: { normal: fontPath('Roboto-Regular.ttf'), bold: fontPath('Roboto-Medium.ttf'), italics: fontPath('Roboto-Italic.ttf'), bolditalics: fontPath('Roboto-Italic.ttf'), }
};
var docDefinition = {}; // this is what you see in all the docs
var printer = new Printer(fontDescriptors);
// get a reference to the PdfKit instance, which is a streaming interface
var pdfDoc = printer.createPdfKitDocument(docDefinition);
// pipe to a file or response object
function streamTo(pdfDoc) { // writeStream can be an fs object, response object, etc var writeStream = fs.createWriteStream('pdfs/output.pdf'); var pdfDoc = printer.createPdfKitDocument(docDefinition); pdfDoc.pipe(writeStream); // streaming interface
}
// turn the stream into a Buffer
// Usage: getDoc(pdfDoc, function (err, buffer, pages) { var base64 = buffer.toString('base64'); /* app logic */ });
function getDoc(pdfDoc, cb) { // buffer the output var chunks = []; pdfDoc.on('data', function(chunk) {	chunks.push(chunk); }); pdfDoc.on('end', function() {	var result = Buffer.concat(chunks);	cb(null, result, pdfDoc._pdfMakePages); }); pdfDoc.on('error', cb); // close the stream pdfDoc.end();
}