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Dromeno · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 502

PuppyPDF does work for this but not optimal, PeasyPDF can not yet handle html pages

https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ produces better results

would be great if there was a pet available

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

@Dromeno,

As it's a commandline utility, & the static compiled release here runs, why do you need a pet?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 24 Feb 2013, 08:09 Post_subject:

What about doing this?

1. Open the HTML document in your web browser.

2. Select Print > Print to File

3. Select PDF output and give the output file a name.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

rcrsn51,

I did that, using this page as the input, & it gave me a pdf with one line at the top, & one at the bottom, but no content in between. Whereas, using wkhtmltopdf, gave me the full document, and a slightly smaller pdf as well.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 24 Feb 2013, 08:41 Post_subject:

What browser are you using?

Dromeno · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 502

Muggins, thanks!

Dromeno · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 502

Hm... what do I do wrong? I unzipped https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2

to

/root/Downloads/wkhtmltopdf-i386

then changed permissions, opened a terminal in the Downloads directory, typed

wkhtmltopdf-i386 --help

and got 'command not found'

same for

wkhtmltopdf --help

'command not found'

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1691 Location: Germany

dromeno,

if you run a binary in the same directory where it is located, you need to prefix it with ./ in your example that would be

./wkhtmltopdf-i386 --help

aragon