I tried rendering PDF document using pdf.js library. I know only basics in javascript and I am new to promises, so at first I followed advice on this page: Render .pdf to single Canvas using pdf.js and ImageData (2. answer).
But as a result, I rendered my document with all pages blank. All pictures and colors are fine, but not even a line of text. I also tried some other tutorials, but either I get the same result, or the document is completely missing.
Right now, my code looks like this: (It's almost identical to the tutorial)
function loadPDFJS(pid, pageUrl){
PDFJS.disableWorker = true;
PDFJS.workerSrc = 'pdfjs/build/pdf.worker.js';
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var pages = [];
var currentPage = 1;
var url = '/search/nimg/IMG_FULL/' + pid + '#page=1';
PDFJS.getDocument(url).then(function (pdf) {
if(currentPage <= pdf.numPages) getPage();
function getPage() {
pdf.getPage(currentPage).then(function(page){
var scale = 1.5;
var viewport = page.getViewport(scale);
canvas.height = viewport.height;
canvas.width = viewport.width;
var renderContext = {
canvasContext: ctx,
viewport: viewport
};
page.render(renderContext).then(function() {
pages.push(canvas.toDataURL());
if(currentPage < pdf.numPages) {
currentPage++;
getPage();
} else {
done();
}
});
});
}
});
function done() {
for(var i = 0; i < pages.length; i++){
drawPage(i, addPage);
}
}
function addPage(img){
document.body.appendChild(img);
}
function drawPage(index, callback){
var img = new Image;
img.onload = function() {
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0, ctx.canvas.width, ctx.canvas.height);
callback(this);
}
img.src = pages[index];
}
}
K so I just looked at my code again and I started all over. I made it simpler and I finally got it to work. Now it looks like this:
var canvasContainer = document.getElementById('pdfImageImg');
function loadPDFJS(pid, pageUrl){
PDFJS.workerSrc = 'pdfjs/build/pdf.worker.js';
var currentPage = 1;
var pages = [];
var url = '/search/nimg/IMG_FULL/' + pid + '#page=1';
PDFJS.getDocument(url).then(function(pdf) {
pdf.getPage(currentPage).then(renderPage);
function renderPage(page) {
var height = 700;
var viewport = page.getViewport(1);
var scale = height / viewport.height;
var scaledViewport = page.getViewport(scale);
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvas.height = scaledViewport.height;
canvas.width = scaledViewport.width;
var renderContext = {
canvasContext: context,
viewport: scaledViewport
};
page.render(renderContext).then(function () {
if(currentPage < pdf.numPages) {
pages[currentPage] = canvas;
currentPage++;
pdf.getPage(currentPage).then(renderPage);
} else {
for (var i = 1; i < pages.length; i++) {
document.getElementById('pdfImageImg').appendChild(pages[i]);
}
}
});
}
});
}