PDF Export Options

18 Nov 20182 minutes to read

To customize PDF export

PDF export provides an option to customize mapping of treegrid to exported PDF document.

File name for exported document

You can assign the file name for the exported document by defining fileName property in PdfExportProperties.

Default fonts for PDF exporting

By default, treegrid uses Helvetica font in the exported document. You can change the default font by using theme property in PdfExportProperties.
The available default fonts are,

  • Helvetica
  • TimesRoman
  • Courier
  • Symbol
  • ZapfDingbats

The code example for changing default font,

    let pdfExportProperties = {
        theme: {
            header: {font:  new ej.pdfexport.PdfStandardFont(ej.pdfexport.PdfFontFamily.TimesRoman, 11, PdfFontStyle.Bold),
            caption: { font: new ej.pdfexport.PdfStandardFont(ej.pdfexport.PdfFontFamily.TimesRoman, 9) },
            record: { font: new ej.pdfexport.PdfStandardFont(ej.pdfexport.PdfFontFamily.TimesRoman, 10) }
        }
    };

Add custom font for PDF exporting

You can change the default font of TreeGrid header, content and caption cells in the exported document by using theme property in PdfExportProperties.

In the following example, we have used Advent Pro font to export the treegrid with Hungarian fonts.

NOTE

PdfTrueTypeFont accepts base 64 format of the Custom Font.

How to change page orientation

Page orientation can be changed Landscape(Default Portrait) for the exported document using the PdfExportProperties.

How to change page size

Page size can be customized for the exported document using the PdfExportProperties.
Supported page sizes are:

  • Letter
  • Note
  • Legal
  • A0
  • A1
  • A2
  • A3
  • A5
  • A6
  • A7
  • A8
  • A9
  • B0
  • B1
  • B2
  • B3
  • B4
  • B5
  • Archa
  • Archb
  • Archc
  • Archd
  • Arche
  • Flsa
  • HalfLetter
  • Letter11x17
  • Ledger

Export hidden columns

PDF export provides an option to export hidden columns of TreeGrid by defining the includeHiddenColumn as true.

Show or hide columns on exported PDF

You can show a hidden column or hide a visible column while exporting the treegrid using ToolbarClick and PdfExportComplete events.

In ToolbarClick event, based on args.item.text as PDF Export. We can show or hide columns by setting Visible property to true or false respectively.

In PdfExportComplete event, We have reversed the state back to the previous state.

In the below example, we have Duration as a hidden column in the treegrid. While exporting, we have changed Duration to visible column and StartDate as hidden column.

NOTE

You can refer to our ASP.NET MVC Tree Grid feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our ASP.NET MVC Tree Grid example to knows how to present and manipulate data.