SpydeDeclarative PDF layout for Node.

Describe a document as a tree of functions. Spyde lays it out, breaks it across pages, and draws it with PDFKit. No browser, no coordinates.

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API

A small API

text, row, column, table, padding, background and a few more. Every call takes its content first and its settings second, so it reads the way it works.

Real pages

Columns and tables break across pages. Table headers repeat. Blocks can be kept together. Nothing ever throws for layout reasons.

One layout, two outputs

The same tree renders as PDF bytes or as an HTML fragment for a live preview, measured with the same numbers, so the page shows where the PDF puts things.