Welcome to HTML2PDF!

HTML2PDF is a plugin tool developed using "Puppeteer" which is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.

Dependencies

	Reference Link	Version
NodeJS	https://nodejs.org/en/	10+

Installation

Check out the following repo!, https://github.com/jithinanchanattu/HTML2PDF.git

To run in your local, run the following in cmd from the checked out root folder: npm i

The app can logic can be used inside the angular app or can be hosted in a server and can be called directly. (Note: Nessesary code changes needs to be done)

Most things that you can do manually in the browser can be done using Puppeteer! Here are a few examples to get you started:

• Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.
• Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. "SSR" (Server-Side Rendering)).
• Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.
• Create an up-to-date, automated testing environment. Run your tests directly in the latest version of Chrome using the latest JavaScript and browser features.
• Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.
• Test Chrome Extensions.

Parameter Arguments

URLPath: Target HTTP link to the website which needs to be converted to PDF.

PDFRand: Values - "Y" or "N". For enabling the random file name for exportPDF.

PDFMerge: Values - "Y" or "N". For merging multiple PDF files.

PDFLink: Either the file name for exportPDF or relative path to destination.

Sample URL: http://localhost:8080/http.js?URLPath=aHR0cHM6Ly9ibG9nLnJpc2luZ3N0YWNrLmNvbQ==&PDFRand=N&PDFMerge=Y&PDFLink=ExportPDF

Config file

All the app level configuration can be made in the config file placed in the below location, Path: ".\config\config.js"

//satic data to don't have to generate the conf_adata 2 times
let config_data = null
module.exports = function() {
// if the static data was already set. return it
if(config_data != null && config_data != undefined) {
return config_data
}

config_data = {
"port": 8080,
"static_variable": "static",
"randFileName": false,
"pdf": {
"defFileName":"exportPDF",
"defPath": "./dump/",
"format": "A4",
"displayHeaderFooter": true,
"headerTemplate": '<div style="text-align: center;background: #1abc9c;color: white;font-size: 30px;"><h1>Header</h1><p>My supercool header</p></div>',
"printBackground": true,
"margin": {
"left": "0px",
"top": "200px",
"right": "0px",
"bottom": "0px",
}
},
"mergePDF":{
"destPath":"./dump"
}
}
return config_data
}