pdf export not working all data with large table

[tiagomsmagalhaes]

Hi,

I'm running ui-grid 3.0.7 and the export pdf does nothing on a table that has around 250 results with 17 columns. If I select a few rows i get the pdf... but if I select export visible data or all data it does open a tab but with no action.

[tiagomsmagalhaes]

i can't provide a plunker, but tutorial 401 doesn't work for me... http://ui-grid.info/docs/#/tutorial/401_AllFeatures

tested in IE11, Chrome 46.0.2490.86 and Firefox 42

[Gonkaro]

Hello guys, same issue here. When I have too many data the browser simply freaks out when exporting to pdf.

Csv export works fine.

[AgDude]

This appears to be a duplicate of #2529 (and in turn bpampuch/pdfmake#275). I thought it started working with newer versions of chrome, but apparently it didn't. I am having the same problem now on the 401 tutorial.

pdfMake is a great tool when it works. But we probably need to limit the amount of data we send to it.

[tiagomsmagalhaes]

@AgDude is it possible to index the pdf generation to a pagination feature? like if we were in the page 3, when exporting it would export only page 3?

i have another grid with 982*3 (rows x columns) and it would export to pdf... but when it's like 250 * 17 it crashes, so it would be related to the columns... but i'm just guessing

[AgDude]

I was just reading a but more on this, and found this issue and workaround: bpampuch/pdfmake#280 (comment)

@tiagomsmagalhaes would you be able to try that workaround with pdfmake and let us know how that works here?

I think an "export current page" option would be a nice feature, but I wouldn't replace the option to export all. We would welcome a pull request that implemented that.

[tiagomsmagalhaes]

@AgDude hi... i tried that workaround to my 256*17 grid worked only in IE11... soon after that comment, the OP mentioned a addPageBreaksIfNeccessary but i couldn't find that in the source..

[AgDude]

@tiagomsmagalhaes You are looking in the pdfMake source, not uiGrid, right?. Have you tried with a new version of pdfMake? I am not sure what version is running on ui-grid.info.

This is something that is on my radar, as I need it in my application as well. I am unlikely to have time in the next few weeks to look into it in detail.

[tiagomsmagalhaes]

@AgDude Yes, I'm looking at the pdfMake source... I'm not sure if I'm running the most recent because i'm using without package systems.. i could try at home in the MEAN stack

[PaulL1]

I would have thought that export visible data would give the same thing as export current page.

[tiagomsmagalhaes]

@PaulL1 i confess that i haven't read the default behaviour of that option, but in this situation i'm using the grid with no pagination

[PaulL1]

@tiagomsmagalhaes : I know the pdfMake team don't have very good IE support. Does it work in Chrome?

[tiagomsmagalhaes]

@PaulL1 i mentioned above that the workaround link provided by @AgDude worked in IE11. i just couldn't figure out one little tweak where the user that created the workaround, because he didn't provide the Line of Code. I think the problem is residing in the columns, because i limited tutorial 401 to 500 rows and it didn't worked. But a colleague was able to generate a pdf with 900 rows and 3 columns, and i have to use one with 17 columns

[cm0n]

I have the same issue. I have a table with 13 cols and over 3300 rows, after 20 minute if have kill the tab.
I have also the issue i can not display all 3300 rows with the ui-grid, it is the same behaviour the tab is freezing and use 100% cpu time.

[trentballew1]

I've had this issue as well. Is there a way with ui-grid to change which pdf library is used for export? That way we could use a library other than pdfMake to create PDF exports instead of being held hostage by the limitations of that particular library. You can do this with ng-grid; it's just not a built-in function.