
Official SDKs in 9 languages. Each one ships with typed models, streaming download support, and a dedicated guide with runnable code for the most common PDF jobs.
import fs from 'fs'
import Anvil from '@anvilco/anvil'
const exampleData = {
title: 'Example HTML to PDF',
type: 'html',
data: {
html: `
<h1 class='header-one'>What is Lorem Ipsum?</h1>
<p>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting
industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text
ever since the <strong>1500s</strong>, when an unknown printer took
a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
</p>
`,
css: `
body { font-size: 14px; color: #171717; }
.header-one { text-decoration: underline; }
`,
},
}
const anvilClient = new Anvil({ apiKey })
const { statusCode, data } = await anvilClient.generatePDF(exampleData)
console.log('Making HTML PDF generation request...')
console.log('Finished! Status code:', statusCode) // => 200, 400, 404, etc
// `data` will be the filled PDF binary data. It is important that the
// data is saved with no encoding! Otherwise the PDF file will be corrupt.
fs.writeFileSync(outputFilepath, data, { encoding: null })
console.log('Generated PDF saved to:', outputFilepath)
Yes. POST Markdown to the same /api/v1/generate-pdf endpoint. Anvil applies a default theme, or you can pass your own CSS.
Yes. Reference custom fonts via @font-face. Per Anvil's PDF generation docs, only TTF format is supported at this time (OTF and WOFF are not yet supported).
Yes. Standard CSS paged-media properties are supported, including helpers for page numbers and fixed-margin content.
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