Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment.

Designed to work in any modern JavaScript runtime. Tested in Node, Browser, Deno, and React Native environments.

> **Learn more at [pdf-lib.js.org](https://pdf-lib.js.org)** ## Table of Contents - [Features](#features) - [Motivation](#motivation) - [Usage Examples](#usage-examples) - [Create Document](#create-document) - [Modify Document](#modify-document) - [Create Form](#create-form) - [Fill Form](#fill-form) - [Flatten Form](#flatten-form) - [Copy Pages](#copy-pages) - [Embed PNG and JPEG Images](#embed-png-and-jpeg-images) - [Embed PDF Pages](#embed-pdf-pages) - [Embed Font and Measure Text](#embed-font-and-measure-text) - [Add Attachments](#add-attachments) - [Set Document Metadata](#set-document-metadata) - [Read Document Metadata](#read-document-metadata) - [Set Viewer Preferences](#set-viewer-preferences) - [Read Viewer Preferences](#read-viewer-preferences) - [Draw SVG Paths](#draw-svg-paths) - [Deno Usage](#deno-usage) - [Complete Examples](#complete-examples) - [Installation](#installation) - [Documentation](#documentation) - [Fonts and Unicode](#fonts-and-unicode) - [Creating and Filling Forms](#creating-and-filling-forms) - [Limitations](#limitations) - [Help and Discussion](#help-and-discussion) - [Encryption Handling](#encryption-handling) - [Migrating to v1.0.0](docs/MIGRATION.md) - [Contributing](#contributing) - [Maintainership](#maintainership) - [Tutorials and Cool Stuff](#tutorials-and-cool-stuff) - [Prior Art](#prior-art) - [Git History Rewrite](#git-history-rewrite) - [License](#license) ## Features - Create new PDFs - Modify existing PDFs - Create forms - Fill forms - Flatten forms - Add Pages - Insert Pages - Remove Pages - Copy pages between PDFs - Draw Text - Draw Images - Draw PDF Pages - Draw Vector Graphics - Draw SVG Paths - Measure width and height of text - Embed Fonts (supports UTF-8 and UTF-16 character sets) - Set document metadata - Read document metadata - Set viewer preferences - Read viewer preferences - Add attachments ## Motivation `pdf-lib` was created to address the JavaScript ecosystem's lack of robust support for PDF manipulation (especially for PDF _modification_). Two of `pdf-lib`'s distinguishing features are: 1. Supporting modification (editing) of existing documents. 2. Working in all JavaScript environments - not just in Node or the Browser. There are [other](#prior-art) good open source JavaScript PDF libraries available. However, most of them can only _create_ documents, they cannot _modify_ existing ones. And many of them only work in particular environments. ## Usage Examples ### Create Document _This example produces [this PDF](assets/pdfs/examples/create_document.pdf)._ [Try the JSFiddle demo](https://jsfiddle.net/Hopding/rxwsc8f5/13/) ```js import { PDFDocument, StandardFonts, rgb } from 'pdf-lib' // Create a new PDFDocument const pdfDoc = await PDFDocument.create() // Embed the Times Roman font const timesRomanFont = await pdfDoc.embedFont(StandardFonts.TimesRoman) // Add a blank page to the document const page = pdfDoc.addPage() // Get the width and height of the page const { width, height } = page.getSize() // Draw a string of text toward the top of the page const fontSize = 30 page.drawText('Creating PDFs in JavaScript is awesome!', { x: 50, y: height - 4 * fontSize, size: fontSize, font: timesRomanFont, color: rgb(0, 0.53, 0.71), }) // Serialize the PDFDocument to bytes (a Uint8Array) const pdfBytes = await pdfDoc.save() // For example, `pdfBytes` can be: // • Written to a file in Node // • Downloaded from the browser // • Rendered in an

	Stars	Issues	Version	Updated	Created
pdf-lib	6,269	249	1.17.1	2 years ago	7 years ago
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pdfkit	9,519	423	0.15.0	a month ago	13 years ago
pdfmake	11,336	338	0.2.10	2 months ago	10 years ago
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