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cordova-pdf-generator

is a HTML to PDF (offline) Generator.

0.9.2
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npm

Version published: 9 years ago

Weekly downloads: 1.5K; decreased by-28.09%

Maintainers: 1

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Created: 9 years ago

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cordova-pdf-generator

Simple plugin to generate (offline) pdf. the plugin basically transform HTML to PDF and also provide the mecanism to share the pdf to other apps like Mail, etc.

For now the only ecosystem supported is IOS, but soon will make this plugin available for Android/Windows.

##Features

Generates a PDF document using a URL or HTML raw data. for better results with raw HTML the CSS should be available for the device.
Open-with menu.
Return the Base64 file representation back, so you can upload the file to a server.

Installing using Plugman

cordova platform add ios 
plugman install --platform ios --project platforms/ios --plugin cordova-pdf-generator

Installing using NPM

npm install cordova-pdf-generator
cordova plugins add node_modules/cordova-pdf-generator

Installing the hard way.

Clone the plugin

$ git clone https://github.com/cesarvr/pdf-generator

Create a new Cordova Project

$ cordova create hello com.example.helloapp Hello

Install the plugin

$ cd hello
$ cordova plugin add ../pdf-generator

Example:

This generates a pdf from a URL, it convert HTML to PDF and returns the file representation in base64.

 document.addEventListener('deviceready', function() { 
        
        pdf.htmlToPDF({
            url: "http://www.google.es",
            documentSize: "A4",
            landscape: "portrait",
            type: "base64"
        }, this.success, this.failure);
 
 });

The same but giving HTML without URL.

 document.addEventListener('deviceready', function() { 
        
     pdf.htmlToPDF({
            data: "<html> <h1>  Hello World  </h1> </html>",
            documentSize: "A4",
            landscape: "portrait",
            type: "base64"
        }, this.success, this.failure);
 
 });

Opening the pdf with other app menu.

 document.addEventListener('deviceready', function() { 
        
     pdf.htmlToPDF({
            data: "<html> <h1>  Hello World  </h1> </html>",
            documentSize: "A4",
            landscape: "portrait",
            type: "share" //use share to open the open-with-menu.
        }, this.success, this.failure);
 
 });

There also a demo here.

API reference

pdf

data: here you sent raw HTML.
url: url location of the webpage.
documentSize: for now only support "A4" and "A3".
landscape: portrait or landscape.
type:
- base64 give you the pdf in Base64 format.
- share opens IOS menu with all options available, this came handy when you want IOS take ownership of the Doc.
success callback: only expect one parameter base64 in case you choose 'base64' type option or boolean in case you to share.
failure callback: receive error information about what going wrong, for now is just raw exception so i need to improve this.

Install iOS or Android platform

cordova platform add ios
cordova platform add android [comming soon...]

Run the code

cordova run

More Info

For more information on setting up Cordova see the documentation

For more info on plugins see the Plugin Development Guide

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Package last updated on 24 Feb 2016

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