Generating PDF files with JavaScript

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I   m trying to convert XML data into PDF files from a web page and I was hoping I could do this entirely within JavaScript  I need to be able to draw text  images and simple shapes  I would love to be able to do this entirely in the browser

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I maintain PDFKit  which also powers pdfmake  already mentioned here   It works in both Node and the browser  and supports a bunch of stuff that other libraries do not    Embedding subsetted fonts  with support for unicode  Lots of advanced text layout stuff  columns  page breaking  full unicode line breaking  basic rich text  etc    Working on even more font stuff for advanced typography  OpenType AAT ligatures  contextual substitution  etc    Coming soon  see the fontkit branch if you re interested  More graphics stuff  gradients  etc  Built with modern tools like browserify and streams  Usable both in the browser and node    Check out http   pdfkit org  for a full tutorial to see for yourself what PDFKit can do  And for an example of what kinds of documents can be produced  check out the docs as a PDF generated from some Markdown files using PDFKit itself  http   pdfkit org docs guide pdf   You can also try it out interactively in the browser here  http   pdfkit org demo browser html

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Even if you could generate the PDF in-memory in JavaScript  you would still have the issue of how to transfer that data to the user  It s hard for JavaScript to just push a file at the user   To get the file to the user  you would want to do a server submit in order to get the browser to bring up the save dialog   With that said  it really isn t too hard to generate PDFs  Just read the spec

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Another interesting project is texlive js    It allows you to compile  La TeX to PDF in the browser

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Another javascript library worth mentioning is pdfmake    pdfmake playground pdfmake on github   The browser support does not appear to be as strong as jsPDF  nor does there seem to be an option for shapes  but the options for formatting text are more advanced then the options currently available in jsPDF

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I ve just written a library called jsPDF which generates PDFs using Javascript alone  It s still very young  and I ll be adding features and bug fixes soon  Also got a few ideas for workarounds in browsers that do not support Data URIs  It s licensed under a liberal MIT license    I came across this question before I started writing it and thought I d come back and let you know     Generate PDFs in Javascript  Example create a  Hello World  PDF file    x000D   x000D     Default export is a4 paper  portrait  using milimeters for units x000D  var doc   new jsPDF   x000D   x000D  doc text  Hello world    10  10  x000D  doc save  a4 pdf   x000D   lt script src  https   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs jspdf 1 3 5 jspdf debug js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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You can use this free service by adding a link which creates pdf from any url  e g  http   www phys org    http   freehtmltopdf com  convert http 3A 2F 2Fwww phys org amp size US Letter amp orientation portrait amp framesize 800 amp language en

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