Old question but this is an alternative solution that I got up and running in my angular app. I ended up modifying this jsPDF solution to work without using the ionic/cordova CLI.

npm install jspdf --save
npm install @types/jspdf --save
npm install html2canvas --save
npm install @types/html2canvas --save

Add an id to whichever div contains the content you want to generate the PDF

<div id="html2Pdf">your content here</div>

Import the libraries

import * as jsPDF from 'jspdf';
import * as html2canvas from 'html2canvas';

Add the method for generating the PDF

generatePdf() {
    const div = document.getElementById("html2Pdf");
    const options = {background: "white", height: div.clientHeight, width: div.clientWidth};

    html2canvas(div, options).then((canvas) => {
        //Initialize JSPDF
        let doc = new jsPDF("p", "mm", "a4");
        //Converting canvas to Image
        let imgData = canvas.toDataURL("image/PNG");
        //Add image Canvas to PDF
        doc.addImage(imgData, 'PNG', 20, 20);

        let pdfOutput = doc.output();
        // using ArrayBuffer will allow you to put image inside PDF
        let buffer = new ArrayBuffer(pdfOutput.length);
        let array = new Uint8Array(buffer);
        for (let i = 0; i < pdfOutput.length; i++) {
            array[i] = pdfOutput.charCodeAt(i);
        }

        //Name of pdf
        const fileName = "example.pdf";

        // Make file
        doc.save(fileName);

    });
}

I found this solution worked well for my web app and was beneficial as I have control over when I want to generate the PDF (after receiving data asynchronously). As well, I didn't need install any libraries globally.

Here's my code,

$scope.printDocument = function(){
  var pdf = new jsPDF('p','pt','a4');
  pdf.addHTML(document.body,  function() {
    pdf.save('web.pdf');
  });
}

I Have html2Canvas required in my service app.js, I can see that there is an addHTML function on the PDF object but it never gets into that callback function, and no errors in the console.

It appears jsPDF.addHTML doesn't get into the options.onrendered function. Trying to track through it, will update here if I find anything.

EDIT FIXED: I had installed html2canvas via npm, and had it set require in my app.js file (angular app), but it wasn't working. I then discovered 0.4.1 html2Canvas is available for bower install. Once I added that (have both loaded, too timid to remove the npm version) it works fine. Huzzah!.