Cannot load images in the Node.js environment

[grizlizli]

Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

Recently, we started using your library in our project.

However, when we tested generating a document with images, we got this error:

\node_modules\pdfmake\build\pdfmake.js:66743
[1]             var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
[1]                       ^
[1]
[1] ReferenceError: XMLHttpRequest is not defined

Here's our setup:

const html = htmlToPdfMake(HTML, { window, imagesByReference: true });

    const docDefinition = {
      // @ts-ignore
      content: html["content"],
      // @ts-ignore
      images: html["images"],
      // pageOrientation: "landscape",
      styles: {
        "html-h1": {
          color: "red",
          background: "white",
        },
        "di-paragraph": {
          color: "green",
        },
      },
    };

    const pdfDocGenerator = pdfMake.createPdf(docDefinition);
    // pdfDocGenerator.download();
    pdfDocGenerator.getBuffer(function (buffer) {
      //fs.writeFileSync("companies.pdf", buffer);

      res.setHeader("Response-Type", "blob");
      res.setHeader("Content-Length", buffer.length);
      res.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/pdf");
      res.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=quote.pdf");
      res.write(buffer, "binary");
      res.end(null, "binary");
    });

Thanks in advance!

[Aymkdn]

Images generated from a Node process must be provided as a base64, as explained in the documentation:

I agree that my documentation is not super clear…

[grizlizli]

Thanks for the clarification.

Keep up the awesome work!