How to get pdf data in pdfkit without saving it to file

Question

I am using pdfkit in nodejs to create pdfs. Right now, to get the data from pdfDocument, I first write it to a file using 'fs' and then read back from it.

I want to be able to use the data directly from pdfDocument object and send it as a response. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Each pdfDocument is a stream. You can basically pipe it to the response like this:

require('http').createserver(function (request, response) {
    var pdfdocument = require('pdfkit'),
        pdfdocument = new pdfdocument();

    pdfdocument.text('wassup');
    pdfdocument.pipe(response);

    pdfdocument.end()
}).listen(1999);