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Balasubramaniam M

Render as PDF for Lightning component

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We need the ability to render lightning component as PDF jus renderas PDF in visualforce page. this will prevent using of third party libraries for PDF rendering.

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Thomas Noyes - 18 days ago

Totally agree that this needs to be there and also renderable (word?) in different languages.
For me, English first and languages later but I fully support my international friends for which that will not work. Seems internationalization could follow quickly if need be while any kinds in English get worked out.

A huge hole in Lightning system. If you really want us to junk VF . . . don't leave out key features, please. It should at least be on high priority road map.

PS: Former Salesforce engineer 2009-2016; now retired -yeah, believe it or not some software engineers have reached the age of retirement! Hah! First system wrote checks in 1997. :D

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David Thompson - 7 months ago

I agree. The pdf applications from the app store have too many limitations and VF is time consuming to maintain compared to lightning components.
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Arnab Sarkar - 7 months ago

Absolutely needed
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RaviTeja Talluri - 8 months ago

we need this feature this will be very helpful to avoid VF page
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Salomon ZAPATA - 10 months ago

Needed.
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Soundar Rajan Ponpandi - 10 months ago

We need this feature
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Kalyan Chakravarthy Pothineni - 1 year ago

This will be a great feature.
A simple resolution I am using for this use case is Lightning Out. Embed lightning component on vf page and use render attribute on top of the page as pdf.
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Amol Sable - 1 year ago

This feature very much needed.
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Vikram Reddy - 1 year ago

Need this Feature.
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Janakiram Singitham - 1 year ago

Needed functionlity.
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Fabiano Oliveira - 1 year ago

It is important.
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Alexis Wu - 1 year ago

We need this functionality so we have full parity when transitioning to lightning
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Klaus Tulipan - 1 year ago

Salesforce: dont forget the foreign language support when generating PDF. Every non-US based company in the world has to generate foreign language documents (e.g. in english) once in a while. this could be so easy if we could supply the target language and the translated labels and picklist values from the translations be pulled automatically. Instead we have to do this by hand and translation workbench becomes useless

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Mark Williamson - 1 year ago

I would love to see this. Classic has not been getting any new functionality and because visualforce is a part of classic, I'm affraid of "render to pdf" will become outdated and buggy. I curently ran into an issue with a limited font list supported by visualforce to pdf. I was hoping that this "to pdf" functionality would continue to the lightning framework so that enhancements could be made i.e. include more fonts.