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 OverflowRendering 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.
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» npm install react-pdf
I have react js app and I have html content of a page and it is being stored in a variable. The thing I want to do is to convert my html to pdf and word files and download both.
» npm install react-to-pdf
I have found below in their site documentation
import { PDFDownloadLink, Document, Page } from '@react-pdf/renderer'
const MyDoc = () => (
<Document>
<Page>
// My document data
</Page>
</Document>
)
const App = () => (
<div>
<PDFDownloadLink document={<MyDoc />} fileName="somename.pdf">
{({ blob, url, loading, error }) => (loading ? 'Loading document...' : 'Download now!')}
</PDFDownloadLink>
</div>
)
hi its working fine for me
import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';
import { PDFDownloadLink, Page, Text, View, Document, StyleSheet } from '@react-pdf/renderer';
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
page: {
flexDirection: 'row',
backgroundColor: '#E4E4E4'
},
section: {
margin: 10,
padding: 10,
flexGrow: 1
}
});
const MyDoc = () => (
<Document>
<Page size="A4" style={styles.page}>
<View style={styles.section}>
<Text>Section #1</Text>
</View>
<View style={styles.section}>
<Text>Section #2</Text>
</View>
</Page>
</Document>
);
function App() {
return (
<div className="App">
<PDFDownloadLink document={<MyDoc />} fileName="somename.pdf">
{({ blob, url, loading, error }) => (loading ? 'Loading document...' : 'Download now!')}
</PDFDownloadLink>
</div>
);
}
export default App;
» npm install react-pdf-html