React-to-print: Is it possible to generate a PDF and download it without Preview?

[invious]

I really love this package, it's making a beautiful PDF for me -- I had one question, my client assumed that after clicking the button the PDF would just trigger a download of a PDF file. Is thiis possible with this package? Or can I combine the PDF generated from this package to trigger a download somehow?

[MatthewHerbst]

Hello. Hmm. That's not currently possible, though I think it would be somewhat easy to add. I'm not sure when I might have the time to look at adding it, however, I would be happy to review a PR if you want to give it a shot. Basically, you just need to open a data uri in the JavaScript. The hard part might be generating that uri, but I think it might be easy, I'm not sure.

[chrisphillers]

This would be a great feature.

[sunilb0575]

Is someone working on this issue?

YES ? "how to track the status" : NO ? "Can I try working on this" : "would love to have this feature"

@MatthewHerbst

[MatthewHerbst]

@sunilb0575 There was some work done in #230 to try and do this but it ended up not working out. You are more than welcome to make a PR that attempts to do this. Things to keep in mind:

• It needs to work across browsers
• If it brings in an external dependency
  
  
  
  • We need to be able to justify the size increase
  
  
  • The dependency should be highly used and well maintained
  
  

Considering any PDF download library is likely to be large, I think ideally we should be able to add it to peerDependencies, and then only make the user specify it if the feature is used (so, call const PDFDownloader = require('<some-pdf-library'>) inside the code instead of at the top of the file.