html2pdf

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Based on eKoopmans/html2pdf

html2pdf converts any webpage or element into a printable PDF entirely client-side using html2canvas and jsPDF.

Getting started

HTML

The simplest way to use html2pdf is to download lib/html2pdf.min.js to your project folder and include it in your HTML with:

<script src="html2pdf.min.js"></script>

NPM

Install html2pdf and its dependencies using NPM with npm install --save js-html2pdf.

Note: You can use NPM to create your project, but html2pdf will not run in Node.js, it must be run in a browser.

Usage

Once installed, html2pdf is ready to use. You can create an instance of the html2pdf class or just use its static methods for one time use:

// Get the element to print
var element = document.getElementById('element-to-print');

// Define optional configuration
var options = {
  filename: 'my-file.pdf'
};

// Create instance of html2pdf class
var exporter = new html2pdf(element, options);

// Download the PDF or...
exporter.getPdf(true).then((pdf) => {
  console.log('pdf file downloaded');
});

// Get the jsPDF object to work with it
exporter.getPdf(false).then((pdf) => {
  console.log('doing something before downloading pdf file');
  pdf.save();
});

// You can also use static methods for one time use...
options.source = element;
options.download = true;
html2pdf.getPdf(options);

The same goes when installing it through NPM

// Import the library
import Html2Pdf from 'js-html2pdf';

var exporter = new Html2Pdf(element, options);

Html2Pdf.getPdf(options);

Options

html2pdf can be configured using an optional options parameter:

var element = document.getElementById('element-to-print');

html2pdf(element, {
  margin:       10,
  filename:     'myfile.pdf',
  image:        { type: 'jpeg', quality: 0.98 },
  html2canvas:  { scale: 2, logging: true, dpi: 192, letterRendering: true },
  jsPDF:        { unit: 'mm', format: 'a4', orientation: 'portrait' }
});

The options parameter has the following optional fields:

Name	Type	Default	Description
source	Element	undefined	The HTML element to export to PDF (required when using static methods).
margin	number or array	[10, 10, 10, 10]	PDF margin (in jsPDF units). Can be a single number, [vMargin, hMargin], or [top, left, bottom, right].
filename	string	'file.pdf'	The default filename of the exported PDF.
image	object	{type: 'jpeg', quality: 0.95}	The image type and quality used to generate the PDF. See the Extra Features section below.
enableLinks	boolean	true	If enabled, PDF hyperlinks are automatically added ontop of all anchor tags.
html2canvas	object	{scale: 2, logging: false}	Configuration options sent directly to html2canvas (see here for usage).
jsPDF	object	{unit: 'mm', format: 'a4', orientation: 'p'}	Configuration options sent directly to jsPDF (see here for usage).

Page-breaks

You may add html2pdf-specific page-breaks to your document by adding the CSS class html2pdf__page-break to any element (normally an empty div). For React elements, use className=html2pdf__page-break. During PDF creation, these elements will be given a height calculated to fill the remainder of the PDF page that they are on. Example usage:

<div id="element-to-print">
  <span>I'm on page 1!</span>
  <div class="html2pdf__page-break"></div>
  <span>I'm on page 2!</span>
</div>

Image type and quality

You may customize the image type and quality exported from the canvas by setting the image option. This must be an object with the following fields:

Name	Type	Default	Description
type	string	'jpeg'	The image type. HTMLCanvasElement only supports 'png', 'jpeg', and 'webp' (on Chrome).
quality	number	0.95	The image quality, from 0 to 1. This setting is only used for jpeg/webp (not png).

These options are limited to the available settings for HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL(), which ignores quality settings for 'png' images. To enable png image compression, try using the canvas-png-compression shim, which should be an in-place solution to enable png compression via the quality option.

Dependencies

html2pdf depends on the external packages html2canvas, jsPDF, and native-promise-only. These dependencies are automatically loaded when using NPM or the bundled package.

Contributing

Issues

When submitting an issue, please provide reproducible code that highlights the issue, preferably by creating a fork of this template in StackBlitz (which has html2pdf already loaded). Remember that html2pdf uses html2canvas and jsPDF as dependencies, so it's a good idea to check each of those repositories' issue trackers to see if your problem has already been addressed.

Credits

Alfredo Irarrazaval

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Alfredo Irarrazaval