PDFDocument = require 'pdfkit' fs = require 'fs' # embed otf make = (doc) -> # Use a font with 2048 em (noto) doc.registerFont('fira', 'assets/fira.otf') doc.registerFont('noto', 'assets/noto-emoji/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf') # Set the font, draw some text doc.font('noto') .fontSize(40) .text('😂😂😂', 100, 150, {width: false}) doc.end() doc = new PDFDocument({compress: no}) doc.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('test22.pdf')) make doc doc = new PDFDocument({compress: yes}) doc.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('test22c.pdf')) make doc