Convert canvas to PDF
canvas, javascript, pdf-generation
Solution
You can achieve this by utilizing the jsPDF library and the toDataURL function.
I made a little demonstration:
var canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
// draw a blue cloud
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(170, 80);
context.bezierCurveTo(130, 100, 130, 150, 230, 150);
context.bezierCurveTo(250, 180, 320, 180, 340, 150);
context.bezierCurveTo(420, 150, 420, 120, 390, 100);
context.bezierCurveTo(430, 40, 370, 30, 340, 50);
context.bezierCurveTo(320, 5, 250, 20, 250, 50);
context.bezierCurveTo(200, 5, 150, 20, 170, 80);
context.closePath();
context.lineWidth = 5;
context.fillStyle = '#8ED6FF';
context.fill();
context.strokeStyle = '#0000ff';
context.stroke();
download.addEventListener("click", function() {
// only jpeg is supported by jsPDF
var imgData = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg", 1.0);
var pdf = new jsPDF();
pdf.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 0, 0);
pdf.save("download.pdf");
}, false);
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jspdf/1.3.3/jspdf.min.js"></script>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="578" height="200"></canvas>
<button id="download">download</button>
Problem
Is it possible to directly convert canvas to pdf using JavaScript (`pdf.js` or something like that)? Is there another possible way like canvas to img and then img to pdf? Can you give me an example?