Migration from Phamton-pdf to Chrome-pdf

Genhan

I am planning to upgrade our jsReport from v1.x to v2.x. According to the v2.x release notes, the biggest change is using Chrome-pdf instead of Phamton-pdf as the main PDF generator.

I am wondering:

how much efforts we need to migrate all of our Phamton-pdf based reports to the Chrome-pdf version
if you have any Chrome-pdf examples in your playground so we can have a little taste of the new recipe
if we can keep both Phamton-pdf and Chrome-pdf reports running simultaneously during transition

Any advice is really appreciated!

jan_blaha

how much efforts we need to migrate all of our Phamton-pdf based reports to the Chrome-pdf version

It depends.... Chrome produces different sizes of elements so the output pdf is usually scaled compared to phantomjs.

if you have any Chrome-pdf examples in your playground so we can have a little taste of the new recipe

You can take a look for example on this one.
https://playground.jsreport.net/studio/workspace/SyUrRILTg/12421

if we can keep both Phamton-pdf and Chrome-pdf reports running simultaneously during transition

You just install additional extension jsreport-phantom-pdf and you can run both phantom or chrome based recipes in parallel.

So if you are happy with the current templates/outputs. Keep using phantom.
If you are interested in using more modern html/css/js, start creating the new templates with chrome recipe.