How to do page numbering in header/footer htmls with wkhtmltopdf?

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Tamás Barta picture Tamás Barta · Aug 24, 2011 · Viewed 80.1k times · Source

I'm developing an electronic invoicing system, and one of our features is generating PDFs of the invoices, and mailing them. We have multiple templates for invoices, and will create more later, so we decided to use HTML templates, generate HTML document, and then convert it to PDF. But we're facing a problem with wkhtmltopdf, that as far as I know (I've been Googleing for days to find the solution) we cannot simply both use HTML as header/footer, and show page numbers in them.

In a bug report (or such) ( http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=140 ) I read that with JavaScript it is achievable this combo. But no other information on how to do it can be found on this page, or elsewhere.

It is, of course not so important to force using JavaScript, if with wkhtmltopdf some CSS magic could work, it would be just as awesome, as any other hackish solutions.

Thanks!

Answer

makro picture makro · Nov 21, 2012

Actually it's much simpler than with the code snippet. You can add the following argument on the command line: --footer-center [page]/[topage].

Like richard mentioned, further variables are in the Footers and Headers section of the documentation.

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