Webview.printPDF | LuaRT free and open source Windows programming framework for Lua

Webview.printPDF(settings) method

Generate a PDF file from the current top-level document in the WebView using optional programmatically specified print settings.

Parameters

settings

A table that may contain any of the following keys :

"file": a filename as a string or File (this field is required).
"orientation": contains a string value to indicate page orientation among "landscape" and "portrait" (the default).
"pageHeight": contains a number value to indicate page height in inches.
"pageWidth": contains a number value to indicate page width in inches.
"header": contains a boolean value to indicate if the header is printed (defaulting to true).
"background": contains a boolean value to indicate if the the background is printed (defaulting to false).
"colorMode": contains a string value to indicate color mode, "grayscale" or "color" (the default).
"copies": contains a number value to indicate the number of copies to be printed (defaulting to 1).
"scaleFactor": contains a number value to indicate the scale factor (defaulting to 1).

Return value

This function will return a Task instance. Once finished, this Task will return :

A boolean indicating if the operation succeeded
In case of error, a string representing the error message is returned as a second return value

Example


local ui = require "ui"
require "webview"
local sysutils = require "sysutils"

local win = ui.Window("Chrome Devtools Protocol example", "fixed", 640, 480)
local wv = ui.Webview(win, 0, 0, 640, 440)
local button = ui.Button(win, "Print to PDF !")
button:center()
button.y = 446
win:center()

function button:onClick()
    local success, result = await(wv:printPDF {file = "test.pdf" })
    if not success then
      ui.error(result)
    else
      sysutils.shellexec("open", "test.pdf")
    end
end

function wv:onReady()
    self:loadstring([[
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <body>
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non risus. Suspendisse lectus tortor, dignissim sit amet, adipiscing nec, ultricies sed, dolor. Cras elementum ultrices diam. Maecenas ligula massa, varius a, semper congue, euismod non, mi. Proin porttitor, orci nec nonummy molestie, enim est eleifend mi, non fermentum diam nisl sit amet erat. Duis semper
    </body>
    </html>]])
end

ui.run(win):wait()