1 May 2018
Generate a PDF Report from Forge Viewer
Here is a quick way to generate a PDF report of the LMV canvas through the browser.
It uses the [jsPDF](https://parall.ax/products/jspdf) library.
DEMO https://wallabyway.github.io/forge-pdf-report/
Result: Floor1-report.PDF
Update (2020):
If you are having problems capturing the PDF, on mobile (IOS or Android), try using the following method instead:
viewer.impl.getScreenShotProgressive(..)
How to use:
Steps:
1. Add this to your `index.html` ...
<script src="https://unpkg.com/jspdf/dist/jspdf.min.js"></script>
2. Take a screenshot of LMV canvas using `getScreenShotBuffer()`, like this ...
viewer.getScreenShotBuffer(
viewer.canvas.width,
viewer.canvas.height,
img => createPDF(img));
});
3. Then add the PNG into a new PDF using jsPDF, like this...
function createPDF(imgData) {
var doc = new jsPDF()
doc.setFontSize(40)
doc.text(35, 25, 'ForgeViewer PDF report');
doc.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 10, 40, 180, 80);
doc.save('report-floor1.pdf')
}
All done !
You can find a complete example on GitHub here: https://github.com/wallabyway/forge-pdf-report
Feel free to add any issues you find to the Github issues repo.
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