Wkhtmltopdf Characters in single line partially cut between pages
I did have this problem with a table: Then I added this to my CSS: table, img, blockquote {page-break-inside: avoid;} This fixed the problem:
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Why doesn’t wkhtmltopdf page-break-after have any effect?
Possibly unrelated as your pdf generated ok with an earlier version of wkhtmltopdf. Either way, I had similar issues with page breaks not being applied correctly. My problem was parent elements of the page-breaked element having an overflow other than visible. This fixed my issue: * { overflow: visible !important; } Of course, you can … Read more
How do I get WKHTMLTOPDF to execute via PHP?
You can also try my project here. It provides a clean OO interface to the command line utility: https://github.com/mikehaertl/phpwkhtmltopdf Usage is very simple: <?php use mikehaertl\wkhtmlto\Pdf; $pdf = new Pdf; // Add a HTML file, a HTML string or a page from a URL $pdf->addPage(‘/home/joe/page.html’); $pdf->addPage(‘<html>….</html>’); $pdf->addPage(‘http://google.com’); // Add a cover (same sources as above … Read more
Calling wkhtmltopdf to generate PDF from HTML
Update: My answer below, creates the pdf file on the disk. I then streamed that file to the users browser as a download. Consider using something like Hath’s answer below to get wkhtml2pdf to output to a stream instead and then send that directly to the user – that will bypass lots of issues with … Read more
How can I use footers and headers with wkhtmltopdf?
Wkhtmltopdf does support even very complex headers and footers. wkhtmltopdf.exe -T 50mm –header-html www.google.com www.stackoverflow.com test.pdf && test.pdf That command uses the page at www.google.com as a 50mm header for www.stackoverflow.com for every page. Note: If you use a custom page for the header/footer, you need to add <!DOCTYPE HTML> in the beginning of your … Read more
WkHTMLtoPDF not loading local CSS and images
In my case – wkhtmltopdf version 0.12.2.1 (with patched qt) – adding a base tag to the head section with the absolute path made sure images and css did get loaded. <html> <head> … <base href=”http://www.example.com/”> <link href=”http://stackoverflow.com/assets/css/style.css” rel=”stylesheet”> … </head>
Rails: Error running wkhtmltopdf — (error while loading shared libraries)
The Unix packages x11-libs/libXext and x11-libs/libXrender are dependencies Gentoo: sudo emerge libXext libXrender PDFkit wiki also explains in more detail how to get wkhtmltopdf working on engine yard. PDFkit wiki Debian or Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libxrender1
How to do page numbering in header/footer htmls with wkhtmltopdf?
Actually it’s much simpler than with the code snippet. You can add the following argument on the command line: –footer-center [page]/[topage]. Like richard mentioned, further variables are in the Footers and Headers section of the documentation.
How to install wkhtmltopdf on a linux based (shared hosting) web server
I’ve managed to successfully install wkhtmltopdf-amd64 on my shared hosting account without root access. Here’s what i did: Downloaded the relevant static binary v0.10.0 from here: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list EDIT: The above has moved to here via ssh on my shared host typed the following: $ wget {relavant url to binary from link above} $ tar -xvf … Read more
Google Web Fonts and PDF generation from HTML with wkhtmltopdf
To convert HTML to PDF by wkhtmltopdf try to avoid woff font face. Use the truetype format of the Google Web Fonts with base64 encode. Recently I tried to use a Google web font from Google Web Fonts. In the browser it shows correctly but it doesn’t show after converting HTML to PDF. After searching … Read more