Many organizations and individuals now place a heightened emphasis on sustainability, and, therefore, think twice before printing off a lengthy document that could and should otherwise be formatted and structured for online consumption. PDFs’ usefulness as a vehicle for print is also diminishing due to environmental concerns. Some users will take advantage of these shortcuts, but others won’t. The use of Command or Control + F to find something within a PDF is not familiar to all users. Clickable tables of contents are often introduced in PDFs as pseudo navigation, but users still slow down and have trouble finding what they need. The inability to navigate takes a toll on users as finding information becomes challenging and time consuming. They lack navigation and other interface elements that help users maintain context and move through digital content with speed and ease.
PDFs also use lots of heavy, dense text and elaborate graphics which increase their file size and, subsequently, the time they take to download. Content is split up across sheets of paper, which is fine for printed documents, but causes severe usability problems online. Users can’t scan and scroll around in a PDF like on a web page. We often see users get lost in PDFs because the print-oriented view provides only a small glimpse of the content. They’re optimized for paper sizes, not browser windows or modern device viewports. PDFs are meant for distributing documents that users will print. After 20 years of watching users perform similar tasks on a variety of sites that use either PDFs or regular web pages, one thing remains certain: PDFs degrade the user experience. This post described the method to save the HTML page as a PDF.No matter how tempting it is, you should never use a PDF to display content that users need to read online. jspdf is an open-source library used for converting the HTML page to PDF, while html2canvas is used for creating a view based on the page’s data. To save the HTML web page as PDF, use the JavaScript “ jspdf” library with the “ html2canvas” library. That’s all about saving the HTML web page as a PDF in JavaScript. The output indicates that the HTML web page is successfully converted into a PDF file:
Create a PDF file by converting the HTML content of the selected area of the website.Using the “ querySelector()” method, we will get the HTML content from a specified element by ID.Then, define a “ print()” function that will trigger the button click.First, JavaScript must load the jsPDF class and use the jsPDF object.
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