SimPDF

Simplify gofpdf.Fpdf document generation with with this wrapper for use in golang.

Simplify and Expand

SimPDF has a simple goal of simplifying the gofpdf.Fpdf package for use in golang for the masses. The gofpdf package is a great PDF creator and has many various options that are hard to utilize for novice programmers. This hopes to be solved, slightly, by this package.

Features

• Table handling
  • Alternate Row Styling
  • Header Row Styling
  • Column Width
    • Fixed
    • Distribute Evenly the width of the page
    • Auto
• Images
  • Change Width/Height proportionately
  • Position
    • Inset with Text
    • Standard Positioning
• Styling
  • Sets of styles for easy switching of styles
  • WEB CSS color values HEX to RGB Color
  • Complete Google Material Colors available
• Paper Sizes Available
  • A1 - A5
  • Letter, Legal, Tabloid, and Ledger
  • ANSI A
• Orientation switching in document
  • Allows for multiple pages to be a different orientation than the original starting orientation

Installation

go get "github.com/braddschick/simpdf"

Examples

// pdf.Start - Starts the creation of a PDF document
var pdf simpdf.SimPDF
// "Letter" is the page size could also be Legal, Tabloid, Ledger, A1 - A5
// false means this will be in portrait orientation, true means landscape
// defaults.BasicStyle contains the styles to be used in the document you can create your own
// defaults.Narrow_Margins is the margin information for the document
// "" if you want to use custom fonts this will be the custom font directory path
pdf.Start("Letter", false, defaults.BasicStyle, defaults.Narrow_Margins, "")
pdf.Details("Title", "Author", "Subject", "More Keywords, here, here")
l := &models.Alignments{Left: true}
// pdf.WriteCenter writes in the center of the document great for title pages
// "Title" denotes the style of text to be used. This is the name of the models.Style to utilize
// models.Alignments{Center: true} will center the text to the page, also can be Left: true or Right: true
// "This is my Title" is the text to be written out to the document
pdf.WriteCenter("Title", *l, "Title \"centered to the page\"")
// Manual page break
pdf.AddPageBreak()
pdf.Write("Normal", *l, "Adding an image to a \"Standard Position\" is easy as well. Top Left, _#tl#_, or Top Center, _#tc#_, or Top Right, _#tr#_, and is also available in Center or Bottom variations.")
pdf.Finish("./simple_example.pdf")

Complete Examples

See the Examples directory for various examples of how to use SimPDF.

• Simple Example - Basic operations Write/Center, Alignment, Instantiation, and completion