I need to decode a base64 string into PDF file. Im using this code. But the window.atob command always report that error: Failed to execute 'atob' on 'Window': The string to be decoded is not correctly encoded.
I know that the file is correct, because I already decoded it using a website that decode base64 to pdf. I dont know if it helps but we are using Aurelia Framework.
Function that convert
function converBase64toBlob(content, contentType) {
contentType = contentType || '';
var sliceSize = 512;
var byteCharacters = window.atob(content); //method which converts base64 to binary
var byteArrays = [
];
for (var offset = 0; offset < byteCharacters.length; offset += sliceSize) {
var slice = byteCharacters.slice(offset, offset + sliceSize);
var byteNumbers = new Array(slice.length);
for (var i = 0; i < slice.length; i++) {
byteNumbers[i] = slice.charCodeAt(i);
}
var byteArray = new Uint8Array(byteNumbers);
byteArrays.push(byteArray);
}
var blob = new Blob(byteArrays, {
type: contentType
}); //statement which creates the blob
return blob;
}
Call of the function
self.blob = self.converBase64toBlob(result.contents[0].pdf.replace(/^[^,]+,/, ''), 'application/pdf');
self.blobURL = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
window.open(this.blobURL);
I found the solution. The Api was returning the base64 string with a the character '\'. So I removed all of then, and it works just fine.