Have you actually tried it ? I haven't but the samples to download in the
article are selection-able, search-able and all.
It uses an old version of phantomjs though…


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Bjoern Hassler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Renaud,
>
> yes, that's right, but the pdf generated in that way appears to be
> rasterised, so the files are very large, not searchable, etc.
>
> Perhaps it's possible with pantomjs? Does anybody know?
>
> Bjoern
>
> On 19 November 2013 18:38, renaud gaudin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From the link in the comments of Emmanuel's link :
> >
> http://we-love-php.blogspot.com/2012/12/create-pdf-invoices-with-html5-and-phantomjs.html
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Bjoern Hassler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Emmanuel,
> >>
> >> thanks - I don't think that will work for us. Because it creates a
> >> raster image, the resulting pdf files are huge, and text is not
> >> selectable.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to use phantomjs to produce non-raster pdf?
> >>
> >> I've so far tried wkhtmltopdf, but the rending wasn't great, and
> >> wkpdf, which produced very nice pdf, but unfortunately some lines are
> >> horizontally cut across two pages. This may be to do with webkit on my
> >> OS X install (10.7), but I couldn't test on 10.9 because wkpdf doesn't
> >> work with Ruby 2.0. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? (I realise
> >> this is perhaps a little off topic, but I guess html5->pdf needs to be
> >> solved for mediawiki as well.)
> >>
> >> Any other thoughts?
> >> Bjoern
> >>
> >> On 19 November 2013 18:15, Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Le 19/11/2013 19:13, Bjoern Hassler a écrit :
> >> >> I'd like to ask a follow-up question to this. What do you guys use
> for
> >> >> converting html to pdf (on the command line)? Let's say once Parsoid
> >> >> has generated html5, how do you get it into pdf? I've used (and
> >> >> struggled) a bit with wkpdf and enscript to generate page numbers -
> is
> >> >> that the best solution around?
> >> >
> >> > phantomjs PDF rasteriser
> >> > https://coderwall.com/p/5vmo1g
> >> >
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