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
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>
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.
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
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
Update 17.09.2015: Check the version you are using: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.4 is said to fix the problem (I have not checked). This is a known issue in wkhtmltopdf. The page breaking algorithm used by webkit (the WK in WKhtmltopdf) doesn’t really work well for large tables. I suggest breaking the table down to smaller chunks that … Read more
or try this (from http://drupal.org/node/870058) Download wkhtmltopdf. Or better install it with a package manager: sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf Extract it and move it to /usr/local/bin/ Rename it to wkhtmltopdf so that now you have an executable at /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf Set permissions: sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf Install required support packages. sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg … Read more
You might try this with CSS: <table class=”print-friendly”> <!– The rest of your table here –> </table> <style> table.print-friendly tr td, table.print-friendly tr th { page-break-inside: avoid; } </style> Most CSS rules don’t apply to <tr> tags directly, because of exactly what you pointed out above – they have a unique display style, which doesn’t … Read more
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