Nodejs: Convert Doc to PDF

Question

I found some repos, which do not look as they are still maintained:

• https://github.com/gfloyd/node-unoconv
• https://github.com/skmp/node-msoffice-pdf ...

I tried the approach with libreoffice, but the pdf output is so bad, that it is not useable (text on diff. pages etc.).

If possible I would like to avoid starting any background processes and/or saving the file on the server. Best would be solution where I can use buffers. For privacy reasons, I cannot use any external service.

doc buffer -> pdf buffer

Question:

How to convert docs to pdf in nodejs?

Answer 1

For those who might stumble on this question nowadays:

There is cool tool called Gotenberg — Docker-powered stateless API for converting HTML, Markdown and Office documents to PDF. It supports converting DOCs via unoconv.

And I am happen to be an author of JS/TS client for Gotenberg — gotenberg-js-client

I welcome you to use it :)

UPD:
Gotenberg has new website now — https://gotenberg.dev