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Royal Wares
Royal Wares

Reputation: 1272

Open Chrome PDF viewer dialogue with JavaScript

I am trying to offer users the option to save the current webpage as a PDF using Chrome natively, no other browser support is required and introducing a 3rd party system is not a practical option.

Currently I have to manually instruct the user where the "Open PDF in Preview" link is within the print dialogue and only offer the following button:

<a href="#" onclick="event.preventDefault(); window.print();">
    PDF Preview
</a>

I would like to jump the user straight to the PDF preview dialogue for them to save, the following will of course not work, but is more similar to what I would like to achieve.

<a href="#" onclick="event.preventDefault(); window.print('pdf');">
    PDF Preview
</a>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2713

Answers (1)

Royal Wares
Royal Wares

Reputation: 1272

It is not possible to do this.

Chrome currently meets the HTML standard as "print" generically means obtaining the page in some physical way, be that a traditional printed document or a PDF. How it chooses to do this is up to the browser vendor.

Additionally Chrome users can select their default action for printing to be PDF or a printer on their network.

From that I would infer that it's unlikely Chrome would let the web application override the user preference.

Sources

Upvotes: 2

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