ngPrint — Generate PDFs from angular the easy way.

Getting Started

To get started using this module follow the next steps

First add the ngPrint module as a dependency to your angular app

  angula.module('app', ['ngPrint']);

Make sure you have setup the script dependencies described in the bower.json file, you need html2canvas and jspdf you can get them by adding the following to your bower.json

"dependencies": {
  "html2canvas": "^0.4.1",
  "jspdf": "^1.2.61"
}

... and then executing

  bower install

You also need html2pdf.js located in the lib directory.

Add the scripts in the following order to your main index.html file.

<script type="text/javascript" src="bower_components/jspdf/dist/jspdf.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="bower_components/html2canvas/build/html2canvas.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/html2pdf.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/ngprint.js"></script>

That's it! you're all setup.

Start using it

ngPrint consist in a simple printer directive that you can add to your action elements like links and buttons

  <button type="button" printer report-title="Report" printer-data="people" print-on-client="true" report-template-url="{{reportTemplate}}"> Print</button>

Attributes

• report-title
  • Defines the name of the of the .pdf file to produce.
• printer-data
  • Collection of data to be passed to the report template.
• printer-extra
  • Object containing any other set of arguments to be passed to the report template.
• print-on-client
  • Determines whether to print natively from the browser or send the report to be printed in a server.
• printer-server-url
  • Url pointing to the server receiving requests with the templates to be printed.
• printer-download-url
  • Url pointing to the server download url for the generated .pdf file.
• printer-on-error
  • Function to execute if an error ocurre while attempting to generate the .pdf file.

For working code examples on client and server-side printing see the samples directory.

####Note: server implementation (php example provided) and wkhtml2pdf are required to be installed on the server in order to used server-side printing.