Getting Started with the Kendo UI for Angular PDF Export

This guide provides the information you need to start using the Kendo UI for Angular PDF Export—it includes instructions about the available installation approaches, the required dependencies, the code for running the project, and links to additional resources.

After the completion of this guide, you will be able to achieve an end result as demonstrated in the following example.

Setting Up Your Angular Project

Before you start with the installation of any Kendo UI for Angular control, ensure that you have a running Angular project. The prerequisites to accomplish the installation of the components are always the same regardless of the Kendo UI for Angular package you want to use, and are fully described in the section on setting up your Angular project.

Installing the Component

You can choose to use either of the following two approaches for installing the Kendo UI for Angular package and the styles you want to apply:

• Quick setup with Angular CLI
• Manual setup

Quick Setup with Angular CLI

The quick setup presents an automatic approach for adding packages with Angular CLI through the ng-add command. It is suitable for saving time and efforts as ng-add executes in a single step a set of otherwise individually needed commands.

To add the Kendo UI for Angular PDF Export package, run the following command:

Copy Codeng add @progress/kendo-angular-pdf-export

As a result, the ng-add command will perform the following actions:

• Add the @progress/kendo-angular-pdf-export package as a dependency to the package.json file.
• Import the PDFExportModule in the current application's main module (only if the application uses NgModules).

  If your application uses standalone components, you must import the PDFExportModule manually.

• Register the Kendo UI Default theme in the angular.json file.
• Add all required peer dependencies to the package.json file.
• Trigger npm install to install the theme and all peer packages that are added.

Manual Setup

The manual setup provides greater visibility and better control over the files and references installed in your Angular application. You can install the required peer dependencies and a Kendo UI theme by running separate commands for each step and import the desired component modules in your NgModule.

1. Install the PDF Export package together with its dependencies by running the following command:

   Copy Codenpm install --save @progress/kendo-angular-pdf-export @progress/kendo-angular-common @progress/kendo-drawing @progress/kendo-licensing

2. To add the PDF Export component, import the PDFExportModule in your NgModule or standalone components.

   • Using Modules

     Copy Codeimport { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
     import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
     import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
     import { PDFExportModule } from "@progress/kendo-angular-pdf-export";
     import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
     
     @NgModule({
         imports: [BrowserModule, BrowserAnimationsModule, PDFExportModule],
         declarations: [AppComponent],
         bootstrap: [AppComponent]
     })
     
     export class AppModule {}

   • Using Standalone Components

     Copy Codeimport { Component } from '@angular/core';
     import { PDFExportModule } from "@progress/kendo-angular-pdf-export";
     
     @Component({
         standalone: true,
         selector: 'my-app',
         imports: [PDFExportModule],
         template: `
             <button kendoButton (click)="pdf.saveAs('invoice.pdf')">
                 Save As PDF...
             </button>
             <kendo-pdf-export #pdf>content to be exported</kendo-pdf-export>
         `.
     })

3. The next step is to style the component by installing one of the available Kendo UI themes—Kendo UI Default, Kendo UI Material, or Kendo UI Bootstrap.

   3.1 To start using a theme, install its package through NPM.

   • Default theme

     Copy Codenpm install --save @progress/kendo-theme-default

   • Bootstrap theme

     Copy Codenpm install --save @progress/kendo-theme-bootstrap

   • Material theme

     Copy Codenpm install --save @progress/kendo-theme-material

   3.2 After the theme package is installed, reference it in your project. You can include kendo-themes in your project in one of the following ways:

Using the Component

1. After successfully installing the PDF Export package and importing its module, initialize the component by adding the following code in the app.component.html file:

   Copy Code<kendo-pdf-export #pdf>
       content to be exported
   </kendo-pdf-export>

2. Add a button and on its click event export the PDF document:

   Copy Code  <button kendoButton (click)="pdf.saveAs('invoice.pdf')">
       Save As PDF...
     </button>

3. Build and serve the application by running the following command in the root folder.

   Copy Codeng serve

4. Point your browser to http://localhost:4200 and click the button to download the PDF document.

Activating Your License Key

As of December 2020, using any of the UI components from the Kendo UI for Angular library requires either a commercial license key or an active trial license key. If your application does not contain a Kendo UI license file, activate your license key.

Next Steps

• Embedding fonts
• Embedding images
• Disabling hyperlinks
• Scaling the exported content
• Rendering repeated table headers
• Rendering multi-page content
• Hiding extra content
• Styling the exported content

Dependencies

The following table lists the specific functionalities that are provided by each of the PDFExport dependencies as per package:

Learning Resources

• PDF Export Overview
• Get Started with Kendo UI for Angular
• Using Kendo UI for Angular with Angular CLI
• Styling Overview
• Theme Builder
• Customizing the Themes
• Activating Your License Key
• Virtual Classroom (Training Courses for Registered Users)