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node-latex
A small wrapper for generating PDFs with LaTeX in Node.
Requirements
LaTeX must be installed on your machine. You can download it here.
Install
npm install node-latex
Usage
const latex = require('node-latex')
const fs = require('fs')
const input = fs.createReadStream('input.tex')
const output = fs.createWriteStream('output.pdf')
const pdf = latex(input)
pdf.pipe(output)
pdf.on('error', err => console.error(err))
pdf.on('finish', () => console.log('PDF generated!'))
View more examples here.
API
latex(doc[, options])
doc [ReadableStream|String] Required - The (La)TeX document you want to use.
options.inputs [String|Array
options.precompiled [String|Array
options.fonts [String|Arrayfontspec
).
options.cmd [String] - The command to run for your document (pdflatex
, xetex
, etc). pdflatex
is the default.
options.args [Arraycmd
. Defaults to ['-halt-on-error']
.
options.passes [Number] - The number of times to run options.cmd
. Some documents require multiple passes. Only works when doc
is a String. Defaults to 1
.
options.errorLogs [String] - The path to the file where you want to save the contents of the error log to.
License
MIT