Canvas2PDF

Canvas2PDF exports an HTML canvas to PDF. In other words, this library lets you build a PDF document using the canvas API.

How it works

We create a mock 2d canvas context. Use the canvas context like you would on a normal canvas. As you call methods, we use PDFKit to generate a PDF document.

Browser Usage

//Create a new PDF canvas context.
var ctx = new canvas2pdf.PdfContext(blobStream());

//draw your canvas like you would normally
ctx.fillStyle='yellow';
ctx.fillRect(100,100,100,100);
// more canvas drawing, etc...

//convert your PDF to a Blob and save to file
ctx.stream.on('finish', function () {
    var blob = ctx.stream.toBlob('application/pdf');
    saveAs(blob, 'example.pdf', true);
});
ctx.end();

Node Usage

PDFDocument = require('pdfkit')
const fs = require('fs')
const canvas2pdf = require('canvas2pdf')

const file = fs.createWriteStream('example.pdf')
//Create a new PDF canvas context.
const ctx = new canvas2pdf.PdfContext(file)

//draw your canvas like you would normally
ctx.fillStyle = 'yellow'
ctx.fillRect(100, 100, 100, 100)
// more canvas drawing, etc...

ctx.stream.on('finish', function () {
  file.end()
})
ctx.end()

Dependencies

PDFKit
blob-stream required when using in a web browser.

Using with node.js

canvas2pdf works with node.js. Note that neither a DOM or canvas library is needed.

Interactive Browser Demo

Open Demo

Notes

Inspired by Canvas2Svg
Calling fill and then stroke consecutively only executes fill
Some canvas 2d context methods are not implemented yet (e.g. setTransform and arcTo)

ManNguyen/canvas2pdf