Thanks to everyone and John for replying.
I installed wkhtmltopdf on a CentOS 5.4 i386 machine without any
problem. Just the executable was supplied in the i386 version I
downloaded and installed.
I found something interesting. I used wget to get the HTML and then
fed it through wkhtmltopdf. The PDF looked OK, then I noticed in the
help you can do wkhtmltopdf website.com website.pdf, so I thought why
not let the program do the whole thing. To my surprise the output
looked even better! When wkhtmltopdf is getting the web page it
performs some magic to create the PDF properly.
David Roth
On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:13 AM, John Campbell wrote:
The best solution I have seen uses webkit create the PDFs. You get
pretty much the same results as using the print feature in
Safari/Chrome.
I don't know if it will run on your system, but it is worth a look:
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:07 AM, David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
The solution doesn't have to be written in PHP, but it's fine if it
is as
long as it works.
I'm looking for a command-line way to convert HTML to a PDF on
CentOS 5.4,
because I need to do this in a shell script to create the webpage
as a .PDF
file.
I've looked at xhtml2pdf written in Python, but CentOS 5.4 is still
running
Python 2.4 and the best I can tell it needs Python 2.5 or later
cause I
couldn't get it to work.
I also tried PDF-FromHTML-0.31 which is written in PERL, but requires
HTML::TIDY which seems to be unavailable currently.
Thanks in advance for any advice. If this is now considered trivial
to do in
PHP and I've just not stumbled across it yet, please enlighten me.
David Roth
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