Generating PDF files with JavaScript

Question

I’m trying to convert XML data into PDF files from a web page and I was hoping I could do this entirely within JavaScript. I need to be able to draw text, images and simple

Answer 1

Even if you could generate the PDF in-memory in JavaScript, you would still have the issue of how to transfer that data to the user. It's hard for JavaScript to just push a file at the user.

To get the file to the user, you would want to do a server submit in order to get the browser to bring up the save dialog.

With that said, it really isn't too hard to generate PDFs. Just read the spec.