WKHTMLTOPDF Installation error on Ubuntu

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Rasikh Mashhadi picture Rasikh Mashhadi · Sep 12, 2013 · Viewed 18.9k times · Source

We require features like header, footer, table of contents and cover page of pdf, which we want to generate from html/css. We tried WKHTML on windows and it worked like a charm, when moving to our server, we installed WKHTML on our ubuntu server, installation process was successful but it had only limited features, it was able to generate pdf from HTML but all features mentioned (i-e header, footer , table of content and cover page) wasn't working. Following is the error which it was producing.

"The switch -t, is not support using unpatched qt, and will be ignored. Error: This version of wkhtmltopdf is build against an unpatched version of QT, and does not support more then one input document."

We followed many tutorials and installed it with QT patched, one of the tutorial is here (https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/wiki/compilation) . We are not sure if we skipped something or did something wrong, it is installed and few of features has started to work but not all. we are able to generate header and footer but cover page and table of content are still not working. which we really need.

Answer

Rasikh Mashhadi picture Rasikh Mashhadi · Sep 19, 2013

In case anybody is having the similar issue, I got it fixed by following this article.

All features are working perfectly now.

Article contents:

The wkhtmltopdf shell utility is used to generate PDF documents from HTML using WebKit. I’ve tried a few ruby gem wrappers that make use of wkhtmltopdf, but I’ve found that I like using the wicked_pdf gem the best. Regardless of what wrapper you use to call wkhtmltopdf, here are the steps to get wkhtmltopdf installed on Ubuntu (minor adjustments will be needed for non Debian based distributions).

  1. Remove wkhtmltopdf installed using apt-get previously (if previously installed).

    sudo apt-get remove --purge wkhtmltopdf

  2. Install dependencies.

    sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev

  3. Download the static binary as per the architecture (i386/amd64). Extract it, change the owner and then copy it to /usr/local/bin.

    wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
sudo chown root:root wkhtmltopdf-i386
sudo cp wkhtmltopdf-i386 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf

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