create pdf file using pdfkit in nodejs

Most of their documentation seems to be written in CoffeeScript. As cool as CoffeeScript is, that makes it a pain for those of us writing plain old JS.

So, anywhere you see spaces in their documentation, you should be able to wrap that function in parenthesis:

doc.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('output.pdf')); 

Try this piece of code.

const fs = require('fs'); const PDFDocument = require('pdfkit'); let options = { margins: 50 // you pdf settings here. } const doc = new PDFDocument(options); let out = fs.createWriteStream('output.pdf') doc.pipe(out); doc.text('Hellow World.') doc.end(); out.on('finish', function() { // what you want to do with the file. }); 

You have to call the fs module before that. Add this at the top of the file:

var fs = require('fs'); 

It works for me:

doc.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('output.pdf'));