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react-native-html-to-pdf

Convert html strings to PDF documents using React Native

Add it to your project

  1. Run npm install react-native-html-to-pdf --save
  2. Open your project in XCode, right click on Libraries and select Add Files to "Your Project Name.
  3. Add libRNHTMLtoPDF.a to Build Phases -> Link Binary With Libraries (Screenshot).

Usage

var React = require('react-native');

var {
  AlertIOS,
  AppRegistry,
  NativeModules: {
    RNHTMLtoPDF,
  }
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  TouchableHighlight,
  View,
} = React;

var Example = React.createClass({

  createPDF() {
    var options = {
      html: '<h1>PDF TEST</h1>', // HTML String
      
      fileName: 'test',          // Optional: Custom Filename excluded extention
                                 // Default: Randomly generated

      directory: 'docs'          // Optional: 'docs' will save the file in the `Documents`
                                 // Default: Temp directory
    };
    
    RNHTMLtoPDF.convert(options).then((filePath) => {
      console.log(filePath);
    });
  },

  render() {
    <View>
      <TouchableHighlight onPress={this.createPDF}>
        <Text>Create PDF</Text>
      </TouchableHighlight>
    </View>
  }
});

Example

The example project included demonstrates how you can create a PDF file from a html string and email it as an attachment using react-native-mail.

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