Rendering react as pdf is generally a pain, but there is a way around it using canvas.
The idea is to convert : HTML -> Canvas -> PNG (or JPEG) -> PDF
To achieve the above, you'll need :
- html2canvas &
- jsPDF
import React, {Component, PropTypes} from 'react';
// download html2canvas and jsPDF and save the files in app/ext, or somewhere else
// the built versions are directly consumable
// import {html2canvas, jsPDF} from 'app/ext';
export default class Export extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
}
printDocument() {
const input = document.getElementById('divToPrint');
html2canvas(input)
.then((canvas) => {
const imgData = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');
const pdf = new jsPDF();
pdf.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 0, 0);
// pdf.output('dataurlnewwindow');
pdf.save("download.pdf");
})
;
}
render() {
return (<div>
<div className="mb5">
<button onClick={this.printDocument}>Print</button>
</div>
<div id="divToPrint" className="mt4" {...css({
backgroundColor: '#f5f5f5',
width: '210mm',
minHeight: '297mm',
marginLeft: 'auto',
marginRight: 'auto'
})}>
<div>Note: Here the dimensions of div are same as A4</div>
<div>You Can add any component here</div>
</div>
</div>);
}
}
The snippet will not work here because the required files are not imported.
An alternate approach is being used in this answer, where the middle steps are dropped and you can simply convert from HTML to PDF. There is an option to do this in the jsPDF documentation as well, but from personal observation, I feel that better accuracy is achieved when dom is converted into png first.
Update 0: September 14, 2018
The text on the pdfs created by this approach will not be selectable. If that's a requirement, you might find this article helpful.
Answer from Shivek Khurana on Stack OverflowVideos
» npm install react-pdf-html
Rendering react as pdf is generally a pain, but there is a way around it using canvas.
The idea is to convert : HTML -> Canvas -> PNG (or JPEG) -> PDF
To achieve the above, you'll need :
- html2canvas &
- jsPDF
import React, {Component, PropTypes} from 'react';
// download html2canvas and jsPDF and save the files in app/ext, or somewhere else
// the built versions are directly consumable
// import {html2canvas, jsPDF} from 'app/ext';
export default class Export extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
}
printDocument() {
const input = document.getElementById('divToPrint');
html2canvas(input)
.then((canvas) => {
const imgData = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');
const pdf = new jsPDF();
pdf.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 0, 0);
// pdf.output('dataurlnewwindow');
pdf.save("download.pdf");
})
;
}
render() {
return (<div>
<div className="mb5">
<button onClick={this.printDocument}>Print</button>
</div>
<div id="divToPrint" className="mt4" {...css({
backgroundColor: '#f5f5f5',
width: '210mm',
minHeight: '297mm',
marginLeft: 'auto',
marginRight: 'auto'
})}>
<div>Note: Here the dimensions of div are same as A4</div>
<div>You Can add any component here</div>
</div>
</div>);
}
}
The snippet will not work here because the required files are not imported.
An alternate approach is being used in this answer, where the middle steps are dropped and you can simply convert from HTML to PDF. There is an option to do this in the jsPDF documentation as well, but from personal observation, I feel that better accuracy is achieved when dom is converted into png first.
Update 0: September 14, 2018
The text on the pdfs created by this approach will not be selectable. If that's a requirement, you might find this article helpful.
@react-pdf/renderer is a great resource for this.
It is a bit time consuming converting your markup and CSS to React-PDF's format, but it is easy to understand. Exporting a PDF and from it is fairly straightforward.
To allow a user to download a PDF generated by react-PDF, use their on the fly rendering, which provides a customizable download link. When clicked, the site renders and downloads the PDF for the user.
Here's their REPL which will familiarize you with the markup and styling required. They have a download link for the PDF too, but they don't show the code for that here.
» npm install react-to-pdf
» npm install react-pdf
I'm looking for html to pdf solution that supports react and tailwind (I'm using NextJS 14.1 and it's app router)
I tried `react-pdf`, it kinda works but I get a bunch of errors and it feels slugish, plus you can't use tailwind with it and you have to use their custom components which is not very intuitive
I also tried `jspdf` but the styling of tailwind are not fully working and present in the generated pdf, also for some reason the content is too zoomed in and there's too much space between words and a few more design problems that makes it virtually not a valid solution