I am using Puppeteer to generate PDF files from HTML strings. Reading the documentation I found two ways of generating the PDF files:
First, passing an url and call the method goTo as follows
page.goto('https://example.com');
page.pdf({format: 'A4'});
The second one, that is my case, calling the method setContent as follows
page.setContent('<p>Hello, world!</p>');
page.pdf({format: 'A4'});
The thing is that I have 3 different HTML strings that are sent from the client and I want to generate a single PDF file with 3 pages (in case I have 3 HTMLS).
I wonder if there exist a way of doing this with puppeteer ? I accept other suggestions, but I need to use chrome-headless.
Thanks in advance.
I was able to do this by doing the following:
Generate 3 different PDFs with puppeteer. You have the option of saving the file locally or to store it in a variable.
I saved the files locally, because all the PDF Merge plugins that I found only accept URLs and they don't accept buffers for instance. After generating synchronously the PDFs locally, I merged them using PDF Easy Merge.
The code is like this:
const page1 = '<h1>HTML from page1</h1>';
const page2 = '<h1>HTML from page2</h1>';
const page3 = '<h1>HTML from page3</h1>';
const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
const tab = await browser.newPage();
await tab.setContent(page1);
await tab.pdf({ path: './page1.pdf' });
await tab.setContent(page2);
await tab.pdf({ path: './page2.pdf' });
await tab.setContent(page3);
await tab.pdf({ path: './page3.pdf' });
await browser.close();
pdfMerge([
'./page1.pdf',
'./page2.pdf',
'./page3.pdf',
],
path.join(__dirname, `./mergedFile.pdf`), async (err) => {
if (err) return console.log(err);
console.log('Successfully merged!');
})