I tried rendering PDF document using pdf.js library. I know only basics in javascript and I am new to promises, so at first I followed advice on this page: Render .pdf to single Canvas using pdf.js and ImageData (2. answer).
But as a result, I rendered my document with all pages blank. All pictures and colors are fine, but not even a line of text. I also tried some other tutorials, but either I get the same result, or the document is completely missing.
Right now, my code looks like this: (It's almost identical to the tutorial)
function loadPDFJS(pid, pageUrl){
PDFJS.disableWorker = true;
PDFJS.workerSrc = 'pdfjs/build/pdf.worker.js';
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var pages = [];
var currentPage = 1;
var url = '/search/nimg/IMG_FULL/' + pid + '#page=1';
PDFJS.getDocument(url).then(function (pdf) {
if(currentPage <= pdf.numPages) getPage();
function getPage() {
pdf.getPage(currentPage).then(function(page){
var scale = 1.5;
var viewport = page.getViewport(scale);
canvas.height = viewport.height;
canvas.width = viewport.width;
var renderContext = {
canvasContext: ctx,
viewport: viewport
};
page.render(renderContext).then(function() {
pages.push(canvas.toDataURL());
if(currentPage < pdf.numPages) {
currentPage++;
getPage();
} else {
done();
}
});
});
}
});
function done() {
for(var i = 0; i < pages.length; i++){
drawPage(i, addPage);
}
}
function addPage(img){
document.body.appendChild(img);
}
function drawPage(index, callback){
var img = new Image;
img.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0, ctx.canvas.width, ctx.canvas.height);
callback(this);
}
img.src = pages[index];
}
}
Thank you @user3913960, your concept worked for me. I found some issues in your code which I fixed. Here is the code:
function loadPDFJS(pageUrl) {
PDFJS.workerSrc = 'resources/js/pdfjs/pdf.worker.js';
var currentPage = 1;
var pages = [];
var globalPdf = null;
var container = document.getElementById('pdf-container');
function renderPage(page) {
//
// Prepare canvas using PDF page dimensions
//
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
// Link: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13039183/1577396
// Canvas width should be set to the window's width for appropriate
// scaling factor of the document with respect to the canvas width
var viewport = page.getViewport(window.screen.width / page.getViewport(1.0).width);
// append the created canvas to the container
container.appendChild(canvas);
// Get context of the canvas
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvas.height = viewport.height;
canvas.width = viewport.width;
//
// Render PDF page into canvas context
//
var renderContext = {
canvasContext: context,
viewport: viewport
};
page.render(renderContext).then(function () {
if (currentPage < globalPdf.numPages) {
pages[currentPage] = canvas;
currentPage++;
globalPdf.getPage(currentPage).then(renderPage);
} else {
// Callback function here, which will trigger when all pages are loaded
}
});
}
PDFJS.getDocument(pageUrl).then(function (pdf) {
if(!globalPdf){
globalPdf = pdf;
}
pdf.getPage(currentPage).then(renderPage);
});
}
loadPDFJS("somepdffilenamehere.pdf");
K so I just looked at my code again and I started all over. I made it simpler and I finally got it to work. Now it looks like this:
var canvasContainer = document.getElementById('pdfImageImg');
function loadPDFJS(pid, pageUrl){
PDFJS.workerSrc = 'pdfjs/build/pdf.worker.js';
var currentPage = 1;
var pages = [];
var url = '/search/nimg/IMG_FULL/' + pid + '#page=1';
PDFJS.getDocument(url).then(function(pdf) {
pdf.getPage(currentPage).then(renderPage);
function renderPage(page) {
var height = 700;
var viewport = page.getViewport(1);
var scale = height / viewport.height;
var scaledViewport = page.getViewport(scale);
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvas.height = scaledViewport.height;
canvas.width = scaledViewport.width;
var renderContext = {
canvasContext: context,
viewport: scaledViewport
};
page.render(renderContext).then(function () {
if(currentPage < pdf.numPages) {
pages[currentPage] = canvas;
currentPage++;
pdf.getPage(currentPage).then(renderPage);
} else {
for (var i = 1; i < pages.length; i++) {
document.getElementById('pdfImageImg').appendChild(pages[i]);
}
}
});
}
});
}
The pdfjs-dist library contains parts for building PDF viewer. You can use PDFPageView to render all pages. Based on https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/master/examples/components/pageviewer.html :
var url = "https://cdn.mozilla.net/pdfjs/tracemonkey.pdf";
var container = document.getElementById('container');
// Load document
PDFJS.getDocument(url).then(function (doc) {
var promise = Promise.resolve();
for (var i = 0; i < doc.numPages; i++) {
// One-by-one load pages
promise = promise.then(function (id) {
return doc.getPage(id + 1).then(function (pdfPage) {
// Add div with page view.
var SCALE = 1.0;
var pdfPageView = new PDFJS.PDFPageView({
container: container,
id: id,
scale: SCALE,
defaultViewport: pdfPage.getViewport(SCALE),
// We can enable text/annotations layers, if needed
textLayerFactory: new PDFJS.DefaultTextLayerFactory(),
annotationLayerFactory: new PDFJS.DefaultAnnotationLayerFactory()
});
// Associates the actual page with the view, and drawing it
pdfPageView.setPdfPage(pdfPage);
return pdfPageView.draw();
});
}.bind(null, i));
}
return promise;
});
#container > *:not(:first-child) {
border-top: solid 1px black;
}
<link href="https://npmcdn.com/pdfjs-dist/web/pdf_viewer.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://npmcdn.com/pdfjs-dist/web/compatibility.js"></script>
<script src="https://npmcdn.com/pdfjs-dist/build/pdf.js"></script>
<script src="https://npmcdn.com/pdfjs-dist/web/pdf_viewer.js"></script>
<div id="container" class="pdfViewer singlePageView"></div>
See also How to display whole PDF (not only one page) with PDF.JS?
I have used below code to render a pdf with multiple pages.
PDFJS.disableWorker = true; // due to CORS
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'),
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'),
pages = [],
currentPage = 1,
url = 'your_pdf.pdf';
PDFJS.getDocument(url).then(function(pdf) {
if (currentPage <= pdf.numPages) getPage();
// main entry point/function for loop
function getPage() {
// when promise is returned do as usual
pdf.getPage(currentPage).then(function(page) {
var scale = 1;
var viewport = page.getViewport(scale);
canvas.height = viewport.height;
canvas.width = viewport.width;
var renderContext = {
canvasContext: ctx,
viewport: viewport
};
// now, tap into the returned promise from render:
page.render(renderContext).then(function() {
// store compressed image data in array
pages.push(canvas.toDataURL());
if (currentPage < pdf.numPages) {
currentPage++;
getPage(); // get next page
} else {
// after all the pages are parsed
for (var i = 0; i < pages.length; i++) {
drawPage(i);
}
}
});
});
}
});
function drawPage(index, callback) {
var img = new Image;
img.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0, ctx.canvas.width, ctx.canvas.height);
if (index > 0) img.style.display = 'inline-block';
document.body.appendChild(img);
}
img.src = pages[index]; // start loading the data-uri as source
}