How to print a DIV in ElectronJS

Question

i\'m trying to convert my web into an app made in ElectronJS

in my web i print a div with a barcode. this works pretty fine, but in electronjs i can\'t reach this.

Answer 1

You have printed this page before loading is finished.

My approach: 1. create a mainwindow and a (invisible) worker window

import {app, BrowserWindow, Menu, ipcMain, shell} from "electron";
const os = require("os");
const fs = require("fs");
const path = require("path");

let mainWindow: Electron.BrowserWindow = undefined;
let workerWindow: Electron.BrowserWindow = undefined;

async function createWindow() {

    mainWindow = new BrowserWindow();
    mainWindow.loadURL("file://" + __dirname + "/index.html");
    mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools();
    mainWindow.on("closed", () => {
        // close worker windows later
        mainWindow = undefined;
    });

    workerWindow = new BrowserWindow();
    workerWindow.loadURL("file://" + __dirname + "/worker.html");
    // workerWindow.hide();
    workerWindow.webContents.openDevTools();
    workerWindow.on("closed", () => {
        workerWindow = undefined;
    });
}

// retransmit it to workerWindow
ipcMain.on("printPDF", (event: any, content: any) => {
    console.log(content);
    workerWindow.webContents.send("printPDF", content);
});
// when worker window is ready
ipcMain.on("readyToPrintPDF", (event) => {
    const pdfPath = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'print.pdf');
    // Use default printing options
    workerWindow.webContents.printToPDF({}).then((data) {
        fs.writeFile(pdfPath, data, function (error) {
            if (error) {
                throw error
            }
            shell.openItem(pdfPath)
            event.sender.send('wrote-pdf', pdfPath)
        })
    }).catch((error) => {
       throw error;
    })
});

2, mainWindow.html

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3, worker.html