[Javascript, Node.js] PDFMake PDF printing library with Japanese Fonts Support

PDFmake is a fully declarative and has a powerful layout engine for print pdf in Client/service side of your application.
It is also Open Source and has very active contributors.
For more information visit:  PDFmake

We are also using the ipam.ttf for Japanese font support.
by downloading it in this URL:  ipa.ttf

 Installation Instructions:

Install npm and Node modules by running the script.

• For RPM-based distributions:

  1	sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel

• For Debian based distributions:

  1	sudo apt-get install nodejs nodejs-legacy npm

In your package.json file add the following line:

or execute this:

Let's use browserified version because during production builds, when including this module, you want to exclude this module from minification/uglification/compression, as it is already minified.
Meaning, the necessary files are already included in the app. and i'ts already a minified javascript version.

Note: Make sure you installed browserify-rails in your application.
By using this link: browserify-rails

Execute install script.

Import the library into your application (For example).

 Japanese Characters support

Now, We are going to add the necessary dependencies for Supporting Japanese Characters.

Let's use a font builder from .ttf file into a portable .js file in pdfmake-fonts-google by cloning it outside your project:

Once you have cloned the repository, we need to extract the ipam.tff that was downloaded into the fonts directory:

Then we need to install node dependencies first before running the build the font script.

Then run the the build script using grunt which we declared in the lib/* folder.

Once the script is done, We are now going to use the built file by copying the .js and .map.js file located in:

Add the two files to your rails javascript assets.
Then include them to your create pdf parameters by referring to this example code.

Output: 

Thats it! Your good to go. For more details about how to use pdfmake please refer to this site and documentation, The site has also a playground for you to check out how it works.
Pdfmake Site
PDFmake Documentation
PDFmake Playground