Generating PDF Invoices from Word Templates with officeParser

Last week I shared a demo ("Generating PDFs from Word Templates with officeParser") that made use of the awesome officeParser open source library. That demo was a simple "customer report" web app that took custom data and a Word template. Once the form was submitted, the library converted tokens in the Word template to real data and output a PDF. I decided to build another demo using the library, this time on the server with a simple Node.js script. As I mentioned previously, this new feature mimics Adobe's Document Generation API. At the time I wrote my blog post, the library just supported simple transformations. So given `` in your Word template, if you passed a name value of 'Ray', you would see that in the resulting PDF. Now the library's been updated to support: Conditional logic Looping Formatting of values Basically, and no shade to Adobe (not that I think they care), this open source library replicates the most of the same functionality, on your server, for free. Given these…