Save base64 string as PDF at client side with JavaScript

So here my problem: I have a pdf file as a base64 String that i am getting from the server. I would like to use this string to either display the PDF directly to the browser or give it a option of "Save as..." when clicking on a link. Here the code i am using:

<!doctype>
<html>
<head>
   <title>jsPDF</title>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="../libs/base64.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="../libs/sprintf.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="../jspdf.js"></script>

       <script type="text/javascript">

        function demo1() {
            jsPDF.init();
            jsPDF.addPage();
            jsPDF.text(20, 20, 'Hello world!');
            jsPDF.text(20, 30, 'This is client-side Javascript, pumping out a PDF.');

            // Making Data URI
            var out = jsPDF.output();
            var url = 'data:application/pdf;base64,' + Base64.encode(out);

            document.location.href = url;
         }
    </script>
</head>
<body>

<a href="javascript:demo1()">Run Code</a>

</body>
</html>

Its working fine with Chrome and Safari. Firefox does recognize the pdf but does not display it as FF requires extensions to be present but the data-URI has none in this case. The reason I'm insisting here, if chrome and safari get it to work, then there has to be a solution for FF and IE

I know there are a few relevant questions to this but not really the exact one and now also a bit old ones. I know a workaround would be to have the pdf generated at server side but I would like to generate it at client side.

So please intelligent folks, is it possible through some hacks or additional JS download plugins?

Solution 1:

You can create an anchor like the one showed below to download the base64 pdf:

<a download=pdfTitle href=pdfData title='Download pdf document' />

where pdfData is your base64 encoded pdf like "data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0xLjQKJcOkw7zDtsOfCjIgMCBvYmoKPDwvTGVuZ3RoIDMgMCBSL0ZpbHRlci9GbGF0ZURlY29kZT4+CnN0cmVhbQp4nO1cyY4ktxG911fUWUC3kjsTaBTQ1Ytg32QN4IPgk23JMDQ2LB/0+2YsZAQzmZk1PSPIEB..."

Solution 2:

you can use this function to download file from base64.

function downloadPDF(pdf) {
const linkSource = `data:application/pdf;base64,${pdf}`;
const downloadLink = document.createElement("a");
const fileName = "abc.pdf";
downloadLink.href = linkSource;
downloadLink.download = fileName;
downloadLink.click();}

This code will made an anchor tag with href and download file. if you want to use button then you can call click method on your button click.

i hope this will help of you thanks

Save base64 string as PDF at client side with JavaScript

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