JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator

Heh - This was first posted to hacker news over 1500 days ago. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=574854" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=574854</a>

Cannot get it to work for me. It shows only a blank page, both in the in-page viewer, and the saved document locally. I am on a linux Mint 15 and Firefox 23

This is pretty awesome, but I think something that could PDF an html page would be much more valuable. Currently I have to use some wkhtmltopdf server-side trickery.

Watching this under Firefox gives a nice JsPDF -&gt; PDF.js homolinguistic loop.

Github link is missing on that page. <a href="https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MrRio&#x2F;jsPDF</a>

Previously hosted at JsPDF.Com. I&#x27;m not sure why it&#x27;s moved, but I&#x27;ve used this library and can attest to its awesomeness. It seems really stable to me. I use it to create and print off 4 page employment applications.<p>Gotchas : 1 - It can be hard to get downloading working using the Flash shim (For IE9 and below). It is possible though. 2 - Images have to be Base64 encoded, and that can be a royal pain.<p>I&#x27;m not the worlds best developer by a long chalk, but I had this library wrapped in a reporting class in a couple of days, and I can now pretty easily just throw some JS Structures at it, and have the tabular data printed out with headers and footers. I wish I could share it.

I much prefer wkhtmltopdf: <a href="https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com&#x2F;</a><p>It essentially allows you to make an HTML page and convert it to a PDF. It has powerful options around making footers, headers etc. The best part is you can run jQuery on it. It comes in handy when you don&#x27;t know what the data will be like.

This is very interesting. Careful using only client-side technologies to generate PDFs though. What if down the line you get another user requirement, such as having a PDF generated and mailed to the user?<p>Assuming you are not using Node.js as a backend, that might pose a problem, and cause you to possibly maintain the logic for two separate PDF generators.

Wouldn&#x27;t a TeX engine written in Ecmascript make more sense?<p>A Web2JS of sorts maybe...<p>Though I&#x27;m more inclined towards using XeTeX since it solves a lot of problems without gluing a whole new language (LuaTex anyone?) in there.

Small Typo: &quot;A HTML5 client-side solution for generating PDFs&quot;. I think it should be &quot;An HTML5 client-side solution for generating PDFs&quot;.

I&#x27;ve been using this library and I really like it. If only it could do svg, then embedding D3 charts would be a cinch. Keep up the good work, though.

Looks good, but the typesetting is a little off and I don&#x27;t see any examples of paragraphs or line wrapping.<p>I built a PDF library for PHP many years ago and the hardest part was text, typesetting is a hard problem.<p>Looks good for exporting images and charts though.

Pretty useful, but didn&#x27;t work on Firefox 23.0.1 here (just blank pdf).<p>On Chrome seems fine.

This is really good. Specially the real-time rendering as one changes the code. But it does not work with Unicode (I tried farsi) characters.<p>Why does most of things related to PDF do not work with unicode characters?

Why isn&#x27;t the api compatible (or at least sympathetic with) 2D canvas? If it could do that, you&#x27;d be able to reuse so much code.

AFAIK there is not a free lib which approach the commercial pdf generators. page-layouting can be complex.

It&#x27;s funny to see Firefox turn this back into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with PDF.js...

Slightly off-topic, Pdf and Ps are just plain outdated for today. They&#x27;re unreadable on small screens and for people with bad eyesight, and no one sane prints stuff out these days Html is better, but the real thing today is tablet apps. All docs should be published as interactive 10&#x2F;7&#x2F;5 inch apps. Books should also disappear and be replaced by that form factor. Scientific paper authors also need to realize this and replace latex with app programming and publish their work as apps.