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I have an HTML page with around 10 charts generated by chart.js (so these are canvas elements). I want to be able to export the page content into a PDF file.

I’ve tried using jsPDF’s .fromHTML function, but it doesn’t seem to support exporting the canvas contents. (Either that or I’m doing it wrong). I just did something like:

    $(".test").click(function() {
  var doc = new jsPDF()

  doc.fromHTML(document.getElementById("testExport"));
  doc.save('a4.pdf')
});

Any alternative approaches would be appreciated.

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You should use html2canvas (to support canvas export and get a better representation of html elements), along with jsPDF.

Here is an example :

var chart = new Chart(ctx, {
   type: 'line',
   data: {
      labels: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May'],
      datasets: [{
         label: 'DST',
         data: [3, 1, 4, 2, 5],
         backgroundColor: 'rgba(0, 119, 290, 0.2)',
         borderColor: 'rgba(0, 119, 290, 0.6)',
         fill: false
      }]
   },
   options: {
      scales: {
         yAxes: [{
            ticks: {
               beginAtZero: true,
               stepSize: 1
            }
         }]
      }
   }
});

function saveAsPDF() {
   html2canvas(document.getElementById("chart-container"), {
      onrendered: function(canvas) {
         var img = canvas.toDataURL(); //image data of canvas
         var doc = new jsPDF();
         doc.addImage(img, 10, 10);
         doc.save('test.pdf');
      }
   });
}

#chart-container {
   background: white;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.6.0/Chart.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jspdf/1.3.5/jspdf.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html2canvas/0.4.1/html2canvas.min.js"></script>

<div id="chart-container">
   ChartJS - Line Chart
   <canvas id="ctx"></canvas>
</div><br>
<button onclick="saveAsPDF();">save as pdf</button>
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