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title: "Configuring PDF creation in React Native | Nutrient"
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last_updated: "2026-05-15T19:10:05.056Z"
description: "The table below summarizes the available configuration options for generating PDF documents with React Native."
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# PDF generation configuration in React Native

The table below summarizes the available configuration options for generating PDF documents with React Native.

| Option            | Default Value                                | Description                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `name`            | `optional`                                   | Name of the created PDF file.                                                                                                                                                 |
| `filePath`        | `optional`                                   | Path where the new PDF document will be saved.                                                                                                                                |
| `override`        | `false`                                      | If a PDF with the same name already exists in the local iOS/Android folder, enabling this option will delete the existing document and generate a new one with the same name. |
| `template`        | `blank`                                      | Document background image pattern. Available options are: `blank`, `dot5mm`, `grid5mm`, `lines5mm`, and `lines7mm`.                                                           |
| `width`           | `550`                                        | Width of the document.                                                                                                                                                        |
| `height`          | `750`                                        | Height of the document.                                                                                                                                                       |
| `pageSize`        | A4 format: `{width: 595, height: 842}`       | Document size in width and height.                                                                                                                                            |
| `margins`         | `{top: 30, right: 15, bottom: 30, left: 15}` | Content padding in the document.                                                                                                                                              |
| `rotation`        | `0`                                          | Document orientation. Available options are: `0`, `90`, `180`, and `270`.                                                                                                     |
| `backgroundColor` | `#ffffff`                                    | Document background color. You can provide many formats for the color attribute: `#ffffff`, `rgb(255,255,255)`, or `blue`.                                                    |

| `images`          | `['imagePath']`                              | Array of images from which to generate a PDF.                                                                                                                                 |
| `documents`       | `['documentPath', 0]`                        | Array of documents and the page indexes from which to generate a PDF.                                                                                                         |

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## Related pages

- [Generate blank PDFs in React Native](/guides/react-native/pdf-generation/blank-pdf.md)
- [Document to PDF in React Native](/guides/react-native/pdf-generation/from-documents.md)
- [HTML to PDF in React Native](/guides/react-native/pdf-generation/from-html.md)
- [Image to PDF in React Native](/guides/react-native/pdf-generation/from-images.md)
- [Generate PDFs in React Native](/guides/react-native/pdf-generation.md)
- [Generate PDFs from a template in React Native](/guides/react-native/pdf-generation/from-template.md)