Re: Anyone here using wkHtmlToPdf?

I had no footers in my output, but did not want them either.

There's lot of parameters you can pass to the webKit engine. Here's the manual for 0.9.9, which I'm using: http://madalgo.au.dk/~jakobt/wkhtmltoxdoc/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-doc.html

I do have an annoying command window that pops up in dev (file mode), grabbing focus. In a server environment when the exe runs as a different user, I'm hoping this happens in the background. Can you use your eval wrapper for this in WebConnect?

The newer RC1 version also supports html to other format conversions and automatic bookmarks. I need find out why my scripts don't work with that, but 0.9.9 works good enough for me to deploy.

If one version doesn't work, try the other. You can also get help from the exe... wkhtmltopdf.exe --extended-help > help.txt or wkhtmltopdf.exe -h > help.txt

My 88 page test file:
webkit - 6 seconds - 453 k
Neevia - 3 minutes - 2 megs
Amiyui - 6 minutes - 6 megs

I can't say that the settings were identical, but all had good text quality. Neevia wants to scale up my images tho so they didn't look like I wanted. It was suggested that I use a PS printer driver to fix that.

No, but I'm going to check this out. Actually have a need for this in Help Builder... Be great if it worked without hassle.

When you tried did you see if it added pages without the link footers/headers that usually show up in printed browser output? That would be a show stopper for me - it would have to render HTML as is pretty much.

Thanks for pointing this out Rick... worth a look at least.

+++ Rick ---

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

This is a html to pdf conversion using the WebKit rendering engine (and QuickTime if you want to print backgrounds).

v. 0.9.9 works best here since it runs my page JavaScript, otherwise latest does bookmarks, but for some reason not my scripts.

Using Neevia Document Converter Pro took 3 minutes to convert a html doc to 88 page pdf, where wkHtmlToPdf does it in 6 seconds.

Only difference I see is the font-size is smaller using webkit, but the quality is nicer for images.

You need to run it from a command prompt and if using a local file, use file:///c:\tempfile.html