Hey John, I dont know if this will help you but there was a time when i
needed to convert a view to PDF & I used 2 l js libraries, html2canvas &
jsPDF, they enabled me to achieve my goal that time, you can find the jsPDF
package here: https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
and the html2canvas package here:
https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas/releases
After extracting all the files from the compressed folders look for these 2
js files in jsPDF; *jspdf.debug.js, jspdf.min.js, *and the* html2canvas.js
*in the html2pdf folder*, *upload them into your application's static/js
directory, from there call them in your application's layout page like this:
<script src="{{=URL('static','js/jspdf.debug.js')}}"></script>
<script src="{{=URL('static','js/jspdf.min.js')}}"></script>
<script src="{{=URL('static','js/html2canvas.js')}}"></script>
<script src="{{=URL('static', 'js/moments.js')}}"></script>
In the view that you want to convert to PDF have this javascript code:
<script type="text/javascript">
function genPDF()
{
let pdfName = "licencia";
var doc = new jsPDF({
format: "a4"
});
html2canvas(document.getElementById("invoicing"), {
scale: "5"
}).then(canvas => {
console.log("Capturando");
this.imgFile = canvas;
doc.addImage(this.imgFile, "JPEG", 5, 5, 200, 250);
doc.save('filename.pdf');
});
}
</script>
In the same view have a link that when clicked calls the above js function
like this:
<div id="pdf"><a href="javascript:genPDF()">Click to Download as PDF
</a></div>
This should convert you view into PDF or Image as per the usage of both
liraries.
I hope the maintainers of the jsPDF & html2pdf libraries have not made
adjustmets that may cause this not to work;
Regards
Mostwanted
On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 4:25:47 PM UTC+2, John Bannister wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have hit a bit of a stumbling block and would like to know if anyone
> else has come across this and how to resolve it.
>
> Situation is as follows:-
>
> I am generating tickets/coupons for users once they have entered all the
> appropriate info which I am doing via normal controller/view using html for
> styling. Coupon consists of 2 images plus some text (nothing really fancy
> at all).
>
> Everything looks okay and as it should in the view with all the correct
> information etc.
>
> I now what to email the coupon to the user. This is where I am a bit
> stumped.
>
> I am assuming that I will need to save the rendered view as an
> image/file/.pdf if I want the styling, logos, qrcodes etc to be in the
> email that I will send as well as for all the formatting to be as per the
> view.
>
> Is there any easy way or any way at all to do this?
>
> In the controller I can use the response.render(view, args) but still cant
> see how to create a pdf file from the actual view before sending the email.
> Hopefilly I ma missing something simple
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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