With the code snippets below, I am trying to create a pdf file showing the contents of the electron browser.
I am seeing first three console logs, but cannot see the one right after the printToPDF
method.
Looks like it got stuck reaching printToPDF
method and I have no error messages to share.
Any idea why cannot go further ?
Main.js:
"use strict";
const electron = require('electron')
const fs = require('fs')
const app = electron.app
const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow
const ipc = electron.ipcMain
const path = require('path')
const url = require('url')
const shell = electron.shell
ipc.on("print-to-pdf", function (event) {
console.log("reached to ipc");
const pdfPath = "C:\Temp\print.pdf";
console.log("pdfPath:" + pdfPath);
const win = BrowserWindow.fromWebContents(event.sender);
console.log("created const win");
win.webContents.printToPDF({printBackground: true, landscape: true},function (error, data) {
console.log("reached to printToPDF method:");
if (error) throw error;
fs.writeFile(pdfPath, data, function (error) {
if (error) {
throw error;
}
shell.openExternal("file://" + pdfPath);
event.sender.send("wrote-pdf", pdfPath);
});
});
});