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
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
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
This is caused by the change of default behavior in version 0.12.6 of wkhtmltopdf. wkhtmltopdf disables local file access by default now. It could be solved by adding the command line parameter –enable-local-file-access or the combination –disable-local-file-access –allow <path>
Specify a CSS rule specific to the print media type. There are a number of properties that can be used for paging. I find it easiest to attach the page-break-before property to a class, as shown below. In the HTML: <p>Page 1, paragraph 1</p> <p class=”new-page”>Page 2, paragraph 1</p> <p>Page 2, paragraph 2</p> In the … 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