I found some repos, which do not look as they are still maintained:
I tried the approach with libreoffice, but the pdf output is so bad, that it is not useable (text on diff. pages etc.).
If possible I would like to avoid starting any background processes and/or saving the file on the server. Best would be solution where I can use buffers. For privacy reasons, I cannot use any external service.
doc buffer -> pdf buffer
Question:
How to convert docs to pdf in nodejs?
Answer
For those who might stumble on this question nowadays:
There is cool tool called Gotenberg — Docker-powered stateless API for converting HTML, Markdown and Office documents to PDF. It supports converting DOCs via unoconv.
And I am happen to be an author of JS/TS client for Gotenberg — gotenberg-js-client
I welcome you to use it :)