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| Comment | Post #296311 |
Hi @#56855, the main reason for this answer was simply to say 'use headless mode to force a download of the PDF', but you're right about the example not being very useful (I couldn't really share it unfortunately as it involved logging into an intranet).
If I find myself using this again for ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #296318 |
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| Edit | Post #296318 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Download a PDF file in Playwright instead of opening it in a new tab when clicking on its link This is as much as I was able to shorten it (it downloads all the visible links with `\nTitle` in their text): ```ts import { chromium } from 'playwright'; (async () => { const browser = await chromium.launch(); const context = await browser.newContext({ storageState: 'loggedInState.json... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #296312 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Download a PDF file in Playwright instead of opening it in a new tab when clicking on its link Since this is a Q&A site and it took me hours to figure out this small detail actually works, here is my working code in the hope this saves future users a lot of fruitless searching: ```js const { chromium } = require('playwright'); // Use 'playwright' instead of '@playwright/test' (async... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #296311 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Download a PDF file in Playwright instead of opening it in a new tab when clicking on its link My organisation uses Moodle as their online e-learning system on which teachers share resources, and oftentimes numerous documents that we need to view/download are posted there. The default way of attaching documents (which is what everyone ends up using) requires the recipient to `ctrl`-click o... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #296285 |
their own instance, [posting an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/) will definitely improve the visibility of this post and fix a search bug which is likely to affect and/or disrupt many users. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #296285 |
Now that we have access to [data dumps](https://software.codidact.com/data) as well as the [website source code](https://github.com/codidact/qpixel), we should be able to reproduce this on our own machines to allow debugging and fixing it easier. For now I have yet to get `qpixel` up and running ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #296274 |
You're right: `em` won't parse, at least inside `margin`, but `in` will, so what worked in the end was
```js
await page.pdf({path: "khan.pdf", format: "A4", scale: 0.8, margin: { top: "3in", right: "1in", bottom: "3in", left: "1in"}, outline:true, tagged:true});
```
I also noticed from https:... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #296274 |
Ah yes, that is it. I also tried `await page.pdf({path: "khan.pdf", format: "A4", scale: 0.8, margin: { top: "3", right: "1", bottom: "3", left: "1"}, outline:true});` to add margins and an outline, but both of those silently failed for some reason... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #296274 |
@ggorlen thank you, it works great!
My only concern is: can we tell Playwright when to page break inside your script so that it outputs A4 sheets?
From my testing, changing any `height`-related variable in this code will not work as it is currently 'slurping' up the entire page to feed in... (more) |
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Playwright script to generate PDF of a page that requires scrolling (Khan Academy) Currently I am using One Click Page to PDF to get the job done, although the lack of working open-source tools fit for this task has led me to creating my own; the web page "that won't print" is this Khan Academy article. It seems as though I have 2 options, both involving Playwright: A. (S... (more) |
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