[SalesForce] Print/Download PDF from VF Renderas=PDF in Lightning Experience

I have created a VF page with renderas=PDF and added it as a quick action on the Account object in Lightning Experience. When I click the quick action, a PDF view displays and is correct. How can I add a button or icon to Download that PDF and also a button or icon to Print that PDF?

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Print & download option comes from the browser's pdf viewer.

If you still want to have a button somewhere in your org to download the page, have the button, onclick of which redirect the user to the VF page and when the page load, have the following line in the constructor of the controller

Apexpages.currentPage().getHeaders().put('content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=YourFileName.pdf');

It should save a PDF in your local drive.

You can have a salesforce button for print as well.

window.print() is the function you need to call from the button, it will send the current page for print.

Please note: you can not have this Javascript in a VF page which is rendered as PDF, JS doesn't run when the page is rendered as PDF.

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[SalesForce] Salesforce PDF download using JSZip

So i gave up on trying to convert the files into a PDF and download. Instead what i did was i downloaded the files as HTML. The following code did the trick for me.

function initZip{!randomInt}(TempVar){
        var obj = TempVar;
        var zip = new JSZip();

        for (var key in obj) 
        {
            if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) 
            {
                zip.file(key.toString()+".html", (obj[key]).toString());                    
            }
        }           

        try
        {
            var content = zip.generate({type:"blob"});  
            saveAs(content, "CommunicationKit.zip");                
        }
        catch(e)
        {
            alert(e);                
        }

        IdString = TempVar;


    }

Where TempVar is controller map of Account id & a string which consists of HTMLText that has the source of the HTML page. So, each record in the map has {account id ==> "HTML code here....."}. And then i download the files as HTML pages in the zip

[SalesForce] Print lightning component to PDF

Simply use Window.Print() function and add that function to a button click event.

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