I'm currently creating a phonegap app that lets you input Data and then creates a PDF with that data. The Input is done, but I can't find anything to make a PDF with Javascript. So far I only found jsPDF, but that doesn't support tables. The App must work offline. Does someone have an Idea?

I'm currently creating a phonegap app that lets you input Data and then creates a PDF with that data. The Input is done, but I can't find anything to make a PDF with Javascript. So far I only found jsPDF, but that doesn't support tables. The App must work offline. Does someone have an Idea?

• javascript
• pdf
• cordova
• documentation-generation
• jspdf

• You could probably use pdf.fromHTML() to create tables, but then you would have to generate a HTML table first. – liftarn Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 10:13

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I wanted to use jsPDF to generate tables so I made a table plugin for it. Check it out! jspdf-autotable It has all the features I was looking for in a table plugin.

• Auto width (100% of page width or only as much as required)
• Multiple pages
• Custom headers and footers
• Multiple tables on the same page
• Custom styling
• Examples

pdfmake let's you easily create tables.

It can automatically repeat headers, supports column/row spans and comes with a lot of other options.

There's an example for tables in the playground

jsPDF provide good support for tables using jsPDF-AutoTable plugin.

jsPDF and pdfmake are two javascript libraries widely used to generate pdf. I have used both and would like to share few points i observed:

jsPDF

1. Performance is really good. I would able to generate PDF of 2000 pages in 5-6 seconds.
2. It doesn't support utf-8 format i.e. you won't be able to render pdf in chinese, turkish and other languages.
3. It doesn't support row break and table inside table.

pdfmake

1. Performace is good if you are generating pdf of less than 40 pages. Performance degrade exponentially if you generate larged pdf. Almost kill the browser.
2. Support utf-8 format.
3. Support row break and table inside table.
4. Easy to use.

You can make wise decision based on your requirement.

Bytescout PDF Generator SDK for Javascript might come in handy: http://bytescout.com/products/developer/pdfgeneratorsdkjs/index.html

Ensure that browser inconsistencies for your targeted devices are taken into account.