Hello there! need your help! How we can data in pdf format as exactly shown on the dashboard? can we get grid table written in template node as pdf? is it possible to do such thing?

try node-red-contrib-pdfmake it has got build in examples also

Might be worth looking at this thread as it might give you some ideas of using the pdfmake node... [image] Has anyone used the 'pdfmake' node to embed an image in a document? General I'm trying to use this node to create a PDF from a 'document description' as a project fo…

PDFmake is for creating PDF's direct from data. It isn't for outputting a Dashboard to PDF. If you want to output to PDF, either use PDFmake with the origin data or use your browser to save/print to PDF depending on the OS. Better still, get people to use the web page directly and save everyone th…

[image] Jhankhana: as exactly shown on the dashboard i believe the OP wants the data in pdf format, just as it is shown on dashboard. but i do agree, why make a pdf when you can see the same thing in dashboard. but i do convert few of my reports in pdf for e-mail circulation and record keepi…

[image] smanjunath211: i believe the OP wants the data in pdf format, just as it is shown on dashboard. OK, I didn't quite read it that way but OK. [image] smanjunath211: but i do convert few of my reports in pdf for e-mail circulation and record keeping. I'm deep into trying to get o…

I am attaching SS and flow of my table. In the table, there is some fix data, and some will be come from flow. I have used grid table. Now, I am stuck at, how can I adjust data for PDF in a same manner using function node or anything and then convert it to pdf? Please help me Geniuses [Screenshot…

Here maybe lies a solution. NOTE! - I don't use dashboard, so not sure what is/not possible, so this might not work for you, but it's all I have. I have set this to landscape for this example include a reference to this browser based library https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html2pdf.js/…

That does, of course, turn the table into a JPG that is embedded in the PDF - which is even less accessible and pretty much prevents anyone from easily copying any data back out (which might be good or bad depending on your use-case). I just hope that none of your users have accessibility issues - …

Oh! its fisher price indeed :nerd_face: And agreed, if copyable data is required - not the solution. It retains the layout well - just access to the text content is prevented. It will works well for graphs/charts - but not so much tabular data as the text not being copyable

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Might be worth looking at this thread as it might give you some ideas of using the pdfmake node...

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