PDF Printing

Print.js was primarily written to help us print PDF files directly within our apps, without leaving the interface, and no use of embeds. For unique situations where there is no need for users to open or download the PDF files, and instead, they just need to print them.

One scenario where this is useful, for example, is when users request to print reports that are generated on the server side. These reports are sent back as PDF files. There is no need to open these files before printing them. Print.js offers a quick way to print these files within our apps.

PDF files must be served from the same domain as your app is hosted under. Print.js uses iframe to load files before printing them, therefore, it is limited by the Same Origin Policy. This helps preventing Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Example

Add a button to print a PDF file located on your hosting server:


 <button type="button" onclick="printJS('docs/printjs.pdf')">
    Print PDF
 </button>

Result:

For large files, you can show a message to the user when loading files. 


 <button type="button" onclick="printJS({printable:'docs/xx_large_printjs.pdf', type:'pdf', showModal:true})">
    Print PDF with Message
 </button>

Result:

The library supports base64 PDF printing: 


 <button type="button" onclick="printJS({printable: base64, type: 'pdf', base64: true})">
    Print PDF with Message
 </button>

Result:

HTML Printing

Sometimes we just want to print selected parts of a HTML page, and that can be tricky. With Print.js, we can easily pass the id of the element that we want to print. The element can be of any tag, as long it has a unique id. The library will try to print it very close to how it looks on screen, and at the same time, it will create a printer friendly format for it.

Example

Add a print button to a HTML form:


 <form method="post" action="#" id="printJS-form">
    ...
 </form>

 <button type="button" onclick="printJS('printJS-form', 'html')">
    Print Form
 </button>

Result:

Name:
Email:
Message:

Print.js accepts an object with arguments. Let's print the form again, but now we will add a header to the page:


 <button type="button" onclick="printJS({ printable: 'printJS-form', type: 'html', header: 'PrintJS - Form Element Selection' })">
    Print Form with Header
 </button>

Result:

0govmovies -

His first click was The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance —a title he’d seen in a forbidden history pamphlet. The film was scratchy, black-and-white, and nothing happened for the first ten minutes. No explosions. No moral speeches from a smiling AI anchor. Just a dusty town and a man telling a story. Elias leaned closer.

The lifecycle of a site like 0govmovies is defined by its instability. Due to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices and government seizure orders, these sites rarely maintain a static domain.

Elias stood, pocketed a single data chip with the last two minutes of Liberty Valance , and walked toward the staircase. He had no plan. No backup. Just a few seconds of a black-and-white man saying, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Many of these sites utilize "adblock-resistant" scripts, forcing users to interact with potentially dangerous content before they can access a video player. Legal and Ethical Considerations

Not from the government directly—they were smarter now. Civic Trust Points started dropping on their citizen dashboards. “Unusual viewing patterns,” the AI noted. “Recommend wellness verification.” Elias ignored it. By week three, Mira’s door was sealed with a smart-lock override. Donté’s work ID simply stopped working. The tunnel’s power grid logged an “anomaly.”

This paper examines the digital phenomenon of “0govmovies,” a term and domain associated with online film piracy. By analyzing the nomenclature, operational structure, and user interface typical of such platforms, this study explores how shadow libraries operate within the interstices of global copyright law. The paper discusses the shift from centralized file hosting to decentralized streaming aggregators, the economic implications for the entertainment industry, and the ongoing "cat-and-mouse" game between intellectual property enforcement agencies and digital pirates.

He smiled. That was the lie they wanted. But now he knew the truth: legends were just stories that survived. And he intended to survive too.

JSON Printing

A simple and quick way to print dynamic data or array of javascript objects.

Example

We have the following data set in our javascript code. This would probably come from an AJAX call to a server API:


 someJSONdata = [
    {
       name: 'John Doe',
       email: 'john@doe.com',
       phone: '111-111-1111'
    },
    {
       name: 'Barry Allen',
       email: 'barry@flash.com',
       phone: '222-222-2222'
    },
    {
       name: 'Cool Dude',
       email: 'cool@dude.com',
       phone: '333-333-3333'
    }
 ]

We can pass it to Print.js:


 <button type="button" onclick="printJS({printable: someJSONdata, properties: ['name', 'email', 'phone'], type: 'json'})">
    Print JSON Data
 </button>

Result:

We can style the data grid by passing some custom css: 0govmovies


 <button type="button" onclick="printJS({
	    printable: someJSONdata,
	    properties: ['name', 'email', 'phone'],
	    type: 'json',
	    gridHeaderStyle: 'color: red;  border: 2px solid #3971A5;',
	    gridStyle: 'border: 2px solid #3971A5;'
	})">
    Print JSON Data
 </button>

Result:

We can customize the table header text sending an object array His first click was The Man Who Shot


 <button type="button" onclick="printJS({
	    printable: someJSONdata,
	    properties: [
		{ field: 'name', displayName: 'Full Name'},
		{ field: 'email', displayName: 'E-mail'},
		{ field: 'phone', displayName: 'Phone'}
	    ],
	    type: 'json'
        })">
    Print with custom table header text
 </button>

Result:

JSON, HTML and Image print can receive a raw HTML header: No moral speeches from a smiling AI anchor


<button type="button" onclick="printJS({
		printable: someJSONdata,
		type: 'json',
		properties: ['name', 'email', 'phone'],
		header: '<h3 class="custom-h3">My custom header</h3>',
		style: '.custom-h3 { color: red; }'
	  })">
	Print header raw html
</button>

Result:

His first click was The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance —a title he’d seen in a forbidden history pamphlet. The film was scratchy, black-and-white, and nothing happened for the first ten minutes. No explosions. No moral speeches from a smiling AI anchor. Just a dusty town and a man telling a story. Elias leaned closer.

The lifecycle of a site like 0govmovies is defined by its instability. Due to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices and government seizure orders, these sites rarely maintain a static domain.

Elias stood, pocketed a single data chip with the last two minutes of Liberty Valance , and walked toward the staircase. He had no plan. No backup. Just a few seconds of a black-and-white man saying, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Many of these sites utilize "adblock-resistant" scripts, forcing users to interact with potentially dangerous content before they can access a video player. Legal and Ethical Considerations

Not from the government directly—they were smarter now. Civic Trust Points started dropping on their citizen dashboards. “Unusual viewing patterns,” the AI noted. “Recommend wellness verification.” Elias ignored it. By week three, Mira’s door was sealed with a smart-lock override. Donté’s work ID simply stopped working. The tunnel’s power grid logged an “anomaly.”

This paper examines the digital phenomenon of “0govmovies,” a term and domain associated with online film piracy. By analyzing the nomenclature, operational structure, and user interface typical of such platforms, this study explores how shadow libraries operate within the interstices of global copyright law. The paper discusses the shift from centralized file hosting to decentralized streaming aggregators, the economic implications for the entertainment industry, and the ongoing "cat-and-mouse" game between intellectual property enforcement agencies and digital pirates.

He smiled. That was the lie they wanted. But now he knew the truth: legends were just stories that survived. And he intended to survive too.

Browser Compatibility

Currently, not all library features are working between browsers. Below are the results of tests done with these major browsers, using their latest versions.

Google Chrome
Safari
Firefox
Edge
Opera
Internet Explorer
PDF
HTML
Images
JSON

Thank you BrowserStack for the support. Amazing cross-browser testing tool.

0govmovies

Development and Support

Please report issues and feature requests in GitHub Issues.

If you have questions when implementing or using the library, ask about it in StackOverflow.

Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested: README.md.

Print.js was built from the hard work of all these contributors.