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Created December 1, 2018 23:07
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DownloadPDF.page
<apex:page showHeader="false" standardController="Account">
File is being downloaded. If it doesn't download, <a href="/apex/PDFTestPage" id="lnkDownload" target="_blank" download="PDFTest.pdf" onload="auto_download();">click here</a> to download file.
<script>
function auto_download(){
document.getElementById('lnkDownload').click();
};
//trigger auto-download
window.setTimeout(auto_download, 10);
</script>
</apex:page>
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Hi Anshul, I got this to work (mostly) however I keep getting a PDF error that it can't generate the PDF because it's corrupt. I'm not sure if there is something further I need to edit in the code to pull the current record or if my Adobe is causing problems.

@SarahNicewander I would suggest to first test the PDF generation with dummy data. Technically, PDF generation in this solution just works as a regular VF based PDF generation capability. The key trick is to get the data passed from lightning to Visualforce context.

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