Meteor template to pdf

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Is it possible to convert one of my meteor templates to a pdf file? ie. build a template and then within meteor code point to it and save as a file/data maintaining the formatting and style etc.

I have had a look at pdfkit but as far as I can tell this requires manually building the pdf in code.

The best thing I know is jsPDF, although their HTML renderer is marked with "early stages" label for over a year. — Hubert OG
– Hubert OG, Commented Mar 14, 2014 at 12:35
That's very close to what I need but unfortunately it only scrapes text. I need to keep my page formatting in terms of tables, borders, images etc. — A_L
– A_L, Commented Mar 14, 2014 at 14:13
@A_L you could use spiderable/phantomjs to render your pages to wkhtml2pdf to directly change your rendered html page to a pdf — Tarang
– Tarang, Commented Mar 14, 2014 at 20:47
I also have this need. If anyone reading this has actually built a solution to achieve this, can you please post an answer outlining what you used and how you did it? Or even post a simple project on Github? Thanks! — Geoffrey Booth
– Geoffrey Booth, Commented Mar 16, 2014 at 15:51
@Akshat I installed wkhtmltopdf on my meteor server and I am able to generate pdf's from URL using the command line but I don't knowhow to do this from within meteor - do you have any pointers? — A_L
– A_L, Commented Mar 17, 2014 at 13:50

manu · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-06 17:07:46Z

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Try phantomjs. Follow their rasterize example to generate the pdf. You should load this library only on the server side as it's a big one.

edited Apr 6, 2014 at 17:07

answered Apr 6, 2014 at 16:46

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EnergyMud · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-05 09:36:42Z

Try something like this:

if(Meteor.is_server) { var exec; var file = "myPdf.pdf"; var cmd = "wkhtmltopdf2 -q /tmp/" + file + ".html /tmp/" + file + ".pdf"; Meteor.startup(function() { exec = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('child_process').exec; }); exec(cmd, function(error, stdout, stderr) { console.log(stdout ? stdout : stderr); }); }

This doesn't work for Javascript heavy sites like Meteor. wkhtmltopdf doesn't have browser like environment to load the data on the client side.

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