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