Friday, 31 May 2019

jsPDF doesn't work in Chrome, only Firefox & Safari

I'm trying to export an application to a PDF using jsPDF. After browsing around the web, grabbing a line of code here, a section there - I have managed to get it working... somewhat.

It works in Firefox & Safari, but not in Chrome.

JS-Files used (from jsPDF). Perhaps overkill. Along with Jquery.

    <script type="text/javascript" src="PDF/standard_fonts_metrics.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" src="PDF/split_text_to_size.js"></script>               
    <script type="text/javascript" src="PDF/from_html.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="PDF/addhtml.js"></script>               
    <script type="text/javascript" src="PDF/addimage.js"></script>

The code I'm using is this:

<script type="text/javascript">
function demoFromHTML() {
  $('#listAreaPDF').css("display", "block");

  var pdf = new jsPDF('p', 'pt', 'letter');
  // source can be HTML-formatted string, or a reference
  // to an actual DOM element from which the text will be scraped.
  source = $('#listAreaPDF')[0];

  pdf.setFontSize(24);
  pdf.text(35, 40, "PDF Title here");

  pdf.setFontSize(10);
  pdf.text(500, 40, "Company Name AB");

  // we support special element handlers. Register them with jQuery-style 
  // ID selector for either ID or node name. ("#iAmID", "div", "span" etc.)
  // There is no support for any other type of selectors 
  // (class, of compound) at this time.
  specialElementHandlers = {
    // element with id of "bypass" - jQuery style selector
    '#bypassme': function (element, renderer) {
      // true = "handled elsewhere, bypass text extraction"
      return true
    }
  };
  margins = {
    top: 80,
    bottom: 60,
    left: 40,
    width: 522
  };


  // all coords and widths are in jsPDF instance's declared units
  // 'inches' in this case
  pdf.fromHTML(
    source, // HTML string or DOM elem ref.
    margins.left, // x coord
    margins.top, {// y coord
      'width': margins.width, // max width of content on PDF
      'elementHandlers': specialElementHandlers
    },
    function (dispose) {
      html2canvas($("#presentationArea"), {
        onrendered: function (canvas) {
          var imgData = canvas.toDataURL(
            'image/png');

          pdf.addImage(imgData, 'PNG', 20, 300);
          pdf.save('Test.pdf');
        }
      });
      // dispose: object with X, Y of the last line add to the PDF 
      // this allow the insertion of new lines after html
      // pdf.save('Test.pdf');
    },
    margins
  );
  $('#listAreaPDF').css("display", "none");
}
</script>

Credit for the code found here. With few small changes to suit my application, I have added a connection to html2canvas to lift an image out of my application and placing it into the PDF. Which actually works OK - in Safari and Firefox.

When clicking and activating this function in Chrome I dont even recieve a blank PDF, I get nothing. Not even a pop-up or page generated.

What might be the reason Firefox&Safari works but not Chrome? I have not yet tried Internet Explorer, but I'm not holding my breath. Should you know a way for that to work I'm all for it.

Cheers for any help or suggestions you might provide.



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