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PDFKit is a PDF document generation library built on top of wkhtmltopdf to convert HTML+CSS to pdf using Webkit.

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PDFKit is for creating PDFs using plain old HTML+CSS. Uses wkhtmltopdf on the back-end which renders HTML using Webkit.

PDFKit comes with a middleware that allows users to get a PDF view of any page on your site by appending .pdf to the URL.

Uses wkhtmltopdf on the back-end which renders HTML using Webkit.

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page number in pdf converted from html - pdfkit, python/django

I am using pdfkit with python/django to convert rendered html to pdf. How can page numbers be added in the pdf liike page 1 of 4. I am converting html to string then passing it to from_string method of pdfkit.
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pdfkit does not load css and JavaScript

I'm currently building a web application using Flask. My supervisor requested that one feature should be to save the current page as a PDF (for printing). To this end I'm using pdfkit. Before anyone proposes to use weasyprint instead: I tried…
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PDFkit *.css stylesheets not being applied

I am trying to convert a html page that displays images from facebook cdn to pdf using pdfkit. I am using rails 4.2, pdfkit 0.6.2 and wkhtmltopdf-binary 0.9.9.3. # Gemfile gem 'pdfkit' gem 'wkhtmltopdf-binary' # controller def generate_pdf …
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PDFKit - locate image in center

Using PDFKit on node.js: var PDFDocument = require('pdfkit') var doc = new PDFDocument() doc.image('images/test.jpeg') How can I centerize an image added to the PDF? Is it optional to do it using PDFKit or do I need to use another library?
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Rails PDFKit wait for client side

I have successfully implemented PDFKit into my Rails application. But my application is mostly client side. I have lots of javascript widgets and it takes around 3 seconds for all of them to load. When I generate the pdf I can see some of the…
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Can pdf kit save images from a url?

I have a node.js application in which I'm using pdfkit to generate pdf documents. I want to be able to include images from a url in the pdf. I cant save the image to the file system because my runtime environment is read only and pdf kit seems to…
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How to add line break in pdf generated using pdfkit.from_string()?

I try to generate a pdf file from a string using pdfkit. However, in the result all new line characters \n are ignored. Thus, I get a pdf with a string printed as a single sentence. For example: import pdfkit s = "Some text\n" s += "Ok, let's add…
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Firebase Storage and PDFkit. How specify MIME type?

I am trying to create a PDF file using Firebase Functions and save it to Firebase Storage. I used the code I found in this answers. const functions = require('firebase-functions'); const admin = require('firebase-admin'); const pdfkit =…
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Passing data in UIViewControllerRepresentable

I'm trying to make a PDFView with UIKit and pass it data from a previous SwiftUI view. The data itself is a string with the name of the file. Somehow, the string is not passed from the UIViewControllerRepresentable to the UIViewController and it…
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FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'which' when using python pdfkit

I have a strange error. I try to use pdfkit to convert an HTML string to PDF, but i get a "No such file or directory: 'which'". I know that pdfkit uses wkhtmltopdf, and it tries to find this utility by using which. I have no idea what's happening.…
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Key/values for usePageViewController's options

What key/values can I specify in withViewOptions parameter of usePageViewController method of PDFView of iOS11, PDFKit?
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pdfkit - An A4 html page does not print into an A4 pdf

I have reproduced my problem below : I draw a 210x297 rectangle on a web page
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Can't Convert SVG to PDF with PDFKit in Python without Loosing Images

I am having trouble converting my .SVG files to .PDF's. I am embedding the .SVG code inside html and trying to load the pdf from a string. Everything shows up fine except for the embedded images. They don't show up at all. Here is an example of the…
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Writing metadata to a pdf using pyobjc

I'm trying to write metadata to a pdf file using the following python code: from Foundation import * from Quartz import * url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath_("test.pdf") pdfdoc = PDFDocument.alloc().initWithURL_(url) assert pdfdoc, "failed to create…
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Generate Arabic content with PDFKit & nodeJS

i'm using pdfkit with nodejs to generate dynamically PDF files. the generation works fine but i have a problem displaying arabic characters even if i setup a font that support arabic. The letters are rendered correctly, but the words are displayed…
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