Can JS Doc generate PDF

Question

I am using JS Doc version 3 (https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc). When I run the tool, by default it generates documentation in HTML format. Is it possible to generate doc in PDF format?

After you have your HTML run them through [http://wkhtmltopdf.org/](http://wkhtmltopdf.org/) — Zoltan Toth, Oct 13 '16 at 15:22
This is the solution proposed by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4014280/jsdoc-to-pdf-renderer — krampstudio, Oct 14 '16 at 07:16
No, not on it's own. Like @ZoltanToth suggested, use wkhtmltopdf. — Aniket Sinha, Oct 15 '16 at 16:08

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '16 at 17:17

I would suggest you look at jsPDF. It is pretty cool and easy to use.

The code you download from the mentioned side contains reach examples.

What is jsPDF: A HTML5 client-side solution for generating PDFs. Perfect for event tickets, reports, certificates, you name it!

For example to generate pdf of html, just write following code.

var doc = new jsPDF();

// We'll make our own renderer to skip this editor
var specialElementHandlers = {
    '#editor': function(element, renderer){
        return true;
    }
};

// All units are in the set measurement for the document
// This can be changed to "pt" (points), "mm" (Default), "cm", "in"
doc.fromHTML($('body').get(0), 15, 15, {
    'width': 170, 
    'elementHandlers': specialElementHandlers
});

This is a snapshot of the sample page jsPDF that you get in your download. It contains different example types, codes and pdf generation example.

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '16 at 13:51

Currently there is no tool for converting jsdoc directly to PDF, but you can convert it to some intermediate format (markdown in this example), and then convert it to PDF:

Install required tools

$ npm install -g markdown-pdf
$ npm install -g jsdoc-to-markdown

Generate single markdown file with documentation
```
$ jsdoc2md path/to/your/code/** > docs.md
```
Convert markdown file to PDF:
```
$ markdown-pdf docs.md
```

You can change how documentation looks using css stylesheets (here you can find an example stylesheet).

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 15 '16 at 14:50

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you got html files now, there are so many tools to convert html to pdf (i assume you use node.js)

answered Oct 15 '16 at 14:50

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