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uh hello guys uh in this video I will
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show you how to create a PDF document
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from a JSON file in NodeJS so we have
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this input JSON file right here and from
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this JSON file I will show you how to
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file so we have this JSON file right
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here so for this we need to install a
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package here which is a PDF kit so just
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install this command here by executing
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this command npmi PDF kit i've already
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installed this package so as I run this
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file right here if you
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see you will see on the left hand side
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the JSON file will be converted to PDF
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and this PDF file is created output pdf
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and you can see all your data has been
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converted and now I will show you step
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by step how to actually do this so for
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this you first of all need to import the
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file system module which is a built-in
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module then we import the actual package
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which is your PDF kit so we simply
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require it require PDF
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kit and after requiring it we actually
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read the input JSON file
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for reading it we will first of all wrap
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everything using JSON parse and then we
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will read this file system dot read file
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synchronously and we will basically pass
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the name of the file which is located in
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output.json and then we will create a
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new PDF document by instantiating this
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after doing this we actually can pipe
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data by using file system dot
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stream and inside this we specify the
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output file name which will be
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output.pdf and then we can control some
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properties related to this PDF document
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such as the phone size by using doc
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phone size i can set this to 12 and then
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dot text and then we can insert this
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JSON inside this PDF json dot stringy
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file JSON data null 2 so we insert this
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JSON into the PDF and now we just need
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to end this so dot end so this creates
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your PDF file and then we can show a
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notification message that uh PDF
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generated successfully so very
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systematic process guys first of all we
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read the JSON file by using the file
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system module then we created the new
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instance of this then we pipe the data
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create this output PDF then we can
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control the phone size and insert the
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JSON data simply end the file and show
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the notification so if I run this now
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deleting this and again running the
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script right here you will see it is
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saying that null is not
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defined sorry this is null not
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mull so you'll see your PDF generated
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so in this easy way guys you can create
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your PDF file from the JSON file using
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PDF kit inside NodeJS and also check out
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freemediatools.com which contains
