How to create a pdf client side with Javascript
How to create a pdf client side with a fantastic open source library JSPDF that transforms the contents of a div into a pdf page. After a bit of research, we came across this magnificent free library which is also updated frequently (last update was a couple of months ago) that greatly facilitates the creation of PDF pages for user’s experience benefit, without going into details like how you generate a PDF file.
It copyes your styles applied to the div, by creating a runtime canvas of your div and then print it to a PDF file as by magic.
By declaring a variable, you can choose the orientation, portrait or landscape, format and choose, if div large to print on multiple pages (by simply setting pagesplit: false);
var pdf = new jsPDF ('p', 'px', 'a4'),
source = $ ('# results')[0];
pdf.addHTML (
source, 0, 0, {
pagesplit: false
},
function (ordered) {
pdf.save ('test.pdf');
}
);
was made a demo available here.
by Giuliano De Luca and Codrina Turcu