How do you render a PDF?
We can render any page as pdf by adding renderAs attribute to and specifying “pdf” as value. renderAs value is name of any supported content converter. Currently PDF is the only supported content converter. Setting renderAs attribute to “pdf” renders the page as a PDF.
What is a salesforce lightning component?
The Lightning Component framework is a UI framework for developing web apps for mobile and desktop devices. It’s a modern framework for building single-page applications with dynamic, responsive user interfaces for Lightning Platform apps. It uses JavaScript on the client side and Apex on the server side.
Can a lightning component be rendered as PDF?
You can’t render lightning components as PDF right now. You have to create a Visualforce page for this, or use an external JS library that renders the content as PDF.
How to generate PDF using Lightning in Visualforce?
The main steps in this task are:- 1 Create Lightning component to accept an external method and invoke it on button click 2 Embed Lightning component within Visualforce Page 3 Passing in-memory data within lightning component to VF Page Controller 4 Generating PDF More
How to create lightning component with in-memory data?
Passing in-memory data within lightning component to VF Page Controller In this step, we will create a lightning component which accepts a javascript method as an attribute and on button click (of button within lightning component), invokes visualforce page’s javascript method
Is there a PDF renderer in Salesforce stack?
On Summer 17 Salesforce started testing a new PDF renderer which is based on Chromium (it is not GA yet). They said it supports modern standards, including JavaScript, so I guess that it will support instancing/loading of Lightning Components as well. Thanks for contributing an answer to Salesforce Stack Exchange!