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pdfmake is a library that generates PDF documents for client-side and server-side use in pure JavaScript. Print PDFs in your browser or delegate them for use by your NodeJS backend. Both cases use the same document definition. Forget manual x and y calculations. Let pdfmake handle the rest. Use paragraphs, columns, lists, tables, canvas, etc. You can create your own styles, use custom fonts and build a DSL to extend the framework. Line wrapping, text-alignments (left to right, centered and justified), numbered or bulleted lists margins, images and vector graphics. Convenient styling, style inheritance and custom style dictionary. Auto/fixed/star-sized/percentage columns widths, col-spans, and row-spans, headers automatically repeated in case of a page-break, non-breaking rows, and non-breaking sections keeping headers and rows together. Static and dynamic content, page numbers and page count.

CUPS PDF is available under GPL. It is packaged for a variety of distributions and can be built from the source files. This software is designed for heterogeneous networks to produce PDF files by providing a central fileserver with a PDF printer. CUPS PDF requires root privileges because it must modify file ownerships. To ensure that CUPS PDF is running with root privileges, you must make 'root" the owner of the cups PDF backend. You should also set the file permissions to 0700 (root). CUPS-PDF requires a fully functional UNIX filesystem in order to function. If any of the CUPS PDF working directories are on an NFS mounted volume, make sure they are mounted.