convert HTML having Javascript to PDF using JavaScript

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I want to convert HTML  containing JavaScript   to a PDF  How can I do that   I just want to show what is being shown in web page   I am displaying a gantt chart that is generated by a JavaScript library     Now I want to save that HTML web page as a PDF  how to do that

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With Docmosis or JODReports you could feed your HTML and Javascript to the document render process which could produce PDF or doc or other formats   The conversion underneath is performed by OpenOffice so results will be dependent on the OpenOffice import filters   You can try manually by saving your web page to a file  then loading with OpenOffice - if that looks good enough  then these tools will be able to give you the same result as a PDF

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I m surprised no one mentioned the possibility to use an API to do the work   Granted  if you want to stay secure  converting HTML to PDF directly from within the browser using javascript is not a good idea   But here s what you can do   When your user hit the  Print   for example  button  you    Send a request to your server at a specific endpoint with details about what to convert  URL of the page for instance   This endpoint will then send the data to convert to an API  and will receive the PDF in response which it will return to your user    For a user point of view  they will receive a PDF by clicking on a button   There are many available API that does the job  some better than others  that s not why I m here  and a Google search will give you a lot of answers   Depending on what is written your backend  you might be interested in PDFShift  Truth  I work there    They offer ready to work packages for PHP  Python and Node js  All you have to do is install the package  create an account  indicate your API key and you are all set   The advantage of the API is that they work well in all languages  All you have to do is a request  generally POST  containing the data you want to be converted and get a PDF back  And depending on your usage  it s generally free  except if you are a heavy user

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Copy and paste this in your site to provide a link which will convert the page to a PDF page    lt a href  javascript void window open  http   www htmltopdfconverter net  convert   window location    gt Convert To PDF lt  a gt

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Check this out http   www techumber com 2015 04 html-to-pdf-conversion-using-javascript html  Basically you need to use html2canvas and jspdf to make it work  First you will convert your dom to image and then you will use jspdf to create pdf with the images   EDIT  A short note on how it work  We will use two libraries to make this job done  http   html2canvas hertzen com  and  https   github com MrRio jsPDF First we will create a dom image by using html2canvas them we will use jspdf addImage method to add that image to pdf  It seems simple but there are few bugs in jsPdf and html2cavas so you may need to change dom style temporarily  Hope this helps

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We are also looking for some way to convert html files with complex javascript to pdf  The javasript in our files contains document write and DOM manipulation   We have tried using a combination of HtmlUnit to parse the  files and Flying Saucer to render to pdf but the results are not satisfactory enough  It works  but in our case the pdf is not close enough to what the user wants   If you want to try this out  here is a code snippet to convert a local html file to pdf   URL url   new File  test html   toURI   toURL    WebClient webClient   new WebClient     HtmlPage page   webClient getPage url    OutputStream os   null  try     os   new FileOutputStream  test pdf        ITextRenderer renderer   new ITextRenderer       renderer setDocument page url toString        renderer layout       renderer createPDF os     finally     if os    null  os close

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You can do it using a jquery  Use this code to link the button      document  ready function            quot  button id quot   click function             window print            return false               This link may be also helpful  jQuery Print HTML Pdf Page Options Link

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Using the browser s Print    menu item  you can utilize a PDF Printer Driver  like PDFCreator  This way any JavaScript included in the page is processed by the browser when the page is rendered   PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application   Create PDFs from any program that is able to print

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