React-native-html-to-pdf NPM

react-native-html-to-pdf

Convert html strings to PDF documents using React Native

Installation

Run npm install react-native-html-to-pdf --save

Option 1: Automatic

Run react-native link

Option 2: Manual

iOS

Open your project in XCode, right click on Libraries and select Add Files to "Your Project Name.
Add libRNHTMLtoPDF.a to Build Phases -> Link Binary With Libraries (Screenshot).

Android

Edit android/settings.gradle to included

include ':react-native-html-to-pdf'
project(':react-native-html-to-pdf').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir,'../node_modules/react-native-html-to-pdf/android')

Edit android/app/build.gradle file to include

dependencies {
  ....
  compile project(':react-native-html-to-pdf')

}

Edit MainApplication.java to include

// import the package
import com.christopherdro.htmltopdf.RNHTMLtoPDFPackage;

// include package
new MainReactPackage(),
new RNHTMLtoPDFPackage()

Add the following WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to AndroidManifest.xml

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>

Also starting from Android M, users need to be prompted for permission dynamically. Follow this link for more details on how to do that.

Usage

import React, { Component } from 'react';

import {
  Text,
  TouchableHighlight,
  View,
} from 'react-native';

import RNHTMLtoPDF from 'react-native-html-to-pdf';

export default class Example extends Component {
  async createPDF() {
    let options = {
      html: '<h1>PDF TEST</h1>',
      fileName: 'test',
      directory: 'Documents',
    };

    let file = await RNHTMLtoPDF.convert(options)
    // console.log(file.filePath);
    alert(file.filePath);
  }

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

Options

Param	Type	Default	Note
`html`	`string`		HTML string to be converted
`fileName`	`string`	Random	Custom Filename excluding .pdf extension
`base64`	`boolean`	false	return base64 string of pdf file (not recommended)
`directory`	`string`	default cache directory	Directory where the file will be created (`Documents` folder in example above). Please note, on iOS `Documents` is the only custom value that is accepted.
`height`	number	792	Set document height (points)
`width`	number	612	Set document width (points)

iOS Only

Param	Type	Default	Note
`paddingLeft`	number	10	Outer left padding (points)
`paddingRight`	number	10	Outer right padding (points)
`paddingTop`	number	10	Outer top padding (points)
`paddingBottom`	number	10	Outer bottom padding (points)
`padding`	number	10	Outer padding for any side (points), overrides any padding listed before
`bgColor`	string	#F6F5F0	Background color in Hexadecimal