Motivation
htmltar-to-pdf is a wrapper around phantomjs that convert a HTML payload (in a tarball) as a PDF (or png) file.
Using a simple tar as input makes the whole API simple & stable.
API/usage
const html2pdf = require('htmltar-to-pdf');
const infile = '/some/path/to/a/file.tar';
let output_path = await html2pdf(infile, [format = "pdf|png", [options ]]); //will capture (index.html in tar file)
//you wont make it any simplier...
console.log("Please find a fine PDF in", output_path);
Configuration parameters & defaults values
let opts = {
format : 'A4',
orientation : 'portrait || landscape',
dpi : 72,
index : 'index.html',
waitForDom : true,
waitForEvent : 'customPageEvent',
waitForTimeout : 5000 // timeout as ms
//configure one will set up #page-footer #page-header
pageBodyAnchor : null,
footerFile : null,
headerFile : null,
};