Can Node-RED make a PDF from string msg.payload ? I'm trying make a flow like this: [image] but the pdf file cant opened. Is it possible to make a pdf file with Node-RED ?

Node-RED doesn't have built-in pdf functionality. There's a third party node that seems to do this however: [image] node-red-contrib-pdf Node for node-red to render html as a pdf file or stream

@Popo21 You did not say whether you are running on linux or something else. If linux, you can search Google for something like "linux text to pdf" and get a bunch of suggestions, all of which convert text files to pdf, either directly or through an intermediate postscript file. Your flow diagram sug…

Thank You for your attention. I run that on raspberry, I try to use node-red-contrib-pdf node but give me error, now I'm trying use an API to convert txt to pdf, but how to save that file to my PI? I'm trying this: [image]

For now i think i will make that file as .odt file, thank you for your attention.

I design a pdf form from html / template node, then the HTML form injected to file node. After that, a html file format created which can be transformed to pdf by drag that file to chromium and right click -> print -> save as pdf

Thanks for reply. I will try it. You dont use HTML-PDF NODE ? Right?

yeah, just template and file node

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have you find a solution for pdf file

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