converting html to pdf

Question

I am trying to convert html to pdf from linux,also i have to use this in web APP please let me know what tools are available for this.Please let me know any other tools for this

So far i have tried

    html2ps htmlfilename > a.ps
    ps2pdf a.ps > a.pdf

But the above doesnt convert images and is ignoring css.My Development environment is linux(RHEL5)

Also i have tried http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/convert-html-to-pdf-linux.html i get this error

  [root@localhost bin]# ./wkhtmltopdf www.example.com a.pdf
  ./wkhtmltopdf: error while loading shared libraries: libQtWebKit.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Answer 1

You are on the right path: wkhtmltopdf is the easiest way to do this. Note that the code in the repositories might be outdated (not sure how up-to date this package is); you may need to compile it from source, or get the statically-linked version (which is huge, but has the QT library and other dependencies already included).

Also, in your case, you may just be missing a library - installing libqt4-webkit-dev might do the trick here.

Answer 2

Two ways that are easy to implement and suitable to convert HTML+CSS to pdf are.

1) Using "Jspdf javascript" plugin with "html2canvas plugin" (Web App).

• Insert stable version of jspdf plugin.

  var script = document.createElement('script'); script.type = 'text/javascript'; script.src ='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jspdf/1.0.272/jspdf.min.js'; document.head.appendChild(script);

• Insert html2canvas plugin

  var script = document.createElement('script'); script.type = 'text/javascript'; script.src = 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html2canvas/0.4.1/html2canvas.js'; document.head.appendChild(script);

• Insert the following script

  var html2obj = html2canvas($('your div class here')); var queue = html2obj.parse(); var canvas = html2obj.render(queue);
var img = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpg"); console.log(img);
var doc=new jsPDF("p", "mm", "a4"); var width = doc.internal.pageSize.width;
var height = doc.internal.pageSize.height; doc.addImage(canvas, 'JPEG', 15, 35, 180, 240,'SLOW'); doc.save("save.pdf");

• Special Case for IE 11

  document.getElementById("your div here").style.backgroundColor = "#FFFFFF";

2) Using wkhtmltopdf

• Install wkhtmltopdf from here

• we can directly use wkhtmltopdf from terminal/commandLine, However in case of java language we have a wrapper which we can use.

• Code Example using wkhtmltopdf wrapper

  import com.github.jhonnymertz.wkhtmltopdf.wrapper.Pdf; import com.github.jhonnymertz.wkhtmltopdf.wrapper.page.PageType; import com.github.jhonnymertz.wkhtmltopdf.wrapper.params.Param; public class PofPortlet extends MVCPortlet {
@Override public void render(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) throws PortletException, IOException
{ super.render(request, response); Pdf pdf = new Pdf();
pdf.addPage("http://www.google.com", PageType.url); // Add a Table of contents pdf.addToc(); // The "wkhtmltopdf" shell command accepts different types of options such as global, page, headers and footers, and toc. Please see "wkhtmltopdf -H" for a full explanation. // All options are passed as array, for example: // Save the PDF try { pdf.saveAs("E:\\output.pdf"); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (InterruptedException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } }

3) Other tools include phantom.js, itextpdf, grabz.it

Answer 3

Probably the easiest way would be to launch any modern browser, go to the site, and then use the browser's "print" capability to print to a pdf (assuming your system has a pdf printer set up). I don't know if that's an option in your case, though, and this sort of thing won't work from within a web app. Still, you may want to try it.