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A basic command line alternative using Headless Chrome[1]: chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf https://www.chromestatus.com/ [1] https://develope

• rav 8y ago
  Similar functionality is packaged in wkhtmltopdf, which essentially runs Webkit headless to print to PDF. https://wkhtmltopdf.org/ https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
  • cjimti 8y ago
    txPDF is a simple containerized web services wrapper around wkhtmltopdf, intended to be used as a Microservice component in a larger system.
    • ashkulz 8y ago
      wkhtmltopdf maintainer here. That's really cool! Did you manage to find a workaround for https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/issues/2 https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/issues/2? If so, would appreciate a PR :-)
      • cjimti 8y ago
        Thanks, I'll check out that issue and see if there is anything I can contribute. wkhtmltopdf is a great utility and we rely on it heavily.
  • forapurpose 8y ago
    The article talks about wkhtmltopdf; in fact, they developed their server in response to its limitations: The wkhtmltopdf utility has been around awhile and works great when you get it working correctly on your platform. However, the newest version as of this writing 0.12.5 has a bug prevening TOC generation on some platforms. Some Linux platforms require the installation of Microsoft font packs, and compiling from source leads you down a rabbit hole of dependency hell.