I need to modify a PDF on a Apps script application. To do that I want to use a JS library : PDF-LIB
my code :
eval(UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://unpkg.com/pdf-lib/dist/pdf-lib.js").getContentText());
function modifyPdf() {
const url = 'https://pdf-lib.js.org/assets/with_update_sections.pdf'
const existingPdfBytes = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText();
const pdfDoc = PDFDocument.load(existingPdfBytes)
const helveticaFont = pdfDoc.embedFont(StandardFonts.Helvetica)
const pages = pdfDoc.getPages()
const firstPage = pages[0]
const { width, height } = firstPage.getSize()
firstPage.drawText('This text was added with JavaScript!', {
x: 5,
y: height / 2 + 300,
size: 50,
font: helveticaFont,
color: rgb(0.95, 0.1, 0.1),
rotate: degrees(-45),
})
const pdfBytes = pdfDoc.save()
}
When I execute the function modifyPDF
I have :
Error
ReferenceError: PDFDocument is not defined modifyPdf @ modifie_pdf.gs:7
Do you know how I can import the js lib on my Apps script application ?
The eval
uated global variable namespace is PDFLib
. So, all variables like rgb
, degrees
, PDFDocument
are keys of this object and should be referenced as such.
Most functions present in the library use promises
, which, although is not supported by apps script functionally, it is supported syntactically. Therefore, async
, await
should be used, else you'll only get promise
objects and not the actual document
or font
The library uses setTimeout
, which is not available in apps script. I used Utilities.sleep
to simulate it's behavior.
getContentText()
returns text
and not binary content
. Use getContent()
to get byte[]
instead and cast it to Uint8Array
eval(UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://unpkg.com/pdf-lib/dist/pdf-lib.js").getContentText());
/*+++simulate setTimeout*/setTimeout = (func, sleep) => (Utilities.sleep(sleep),func())
async function modifyPdf() {
const url = 'https://pdf-lib.js.org/assets/with_update_sections.pdf'
const existingPdfBytes = new /*cast to uint8*/Uint8Array(/*returns byte[]*/UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContent/*---Text*/());
/*+++ simulate import*/const { PDFDocument, StandardFonts, rgb, degrees} = PDFLib;
const pdfDoc = /*+++*/await PDFDocument.load(existingPdfBytes)
const helveticaFont = /*+++*/ await pdfDoc.embedFont(StandardFonts.Helvetica)
const pages = pdfDoc.getPages()
const firstPage = pages[0]
const { width, height } = firstPage.getSize()
firstPage.drawText(`This text was added with JavaScript\n\n${' '.repeat(10)}(Google Apps script)!`, {
x: width/10 + 60,
y: height/10 + 120,
size: 40,
font: helveticaFont,
color: rgb(0.1, 0.1, 0.1),
rotate: degrees(50),
opacity: 0.5,
})
const pdfBytes = /*+++*/await pdfDoc.save();
/*+++*/DriveApp.createFile(Utilities.newBlob(pdfBytes).setName('newpdf from apps script'))
}