tobi-or-not/node-wkhtml

Convert html to PDF or PNG format using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.

node-wkhtml

Wrapper for the wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage shell utilities. Converts html to pdf or image format using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.

See: https://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf

Usage

Generate a PDF of node doc and pipe to response.

var wkhtml = require('node-wkhtml');
wkhtml
    .spawn('pdf', 'http://nodejs.org/api/all.html')
    .stdout.pipe(response);

Generate a PDF of node doc and write it to the file system.

var wkhtml = require('../index.js'),
    createWriteStream = require('fs').createWriteStream;
    
wkhtml
  .spawn('pdf', 'http://nodejs.org/api/all.html')
  .stdout.pipe(createWriteStream('node_doc.pdf'));

Generate a PDF from a string and pipe it to the response

var wkhtml = require('node-wkhtml')

var pdf = wkhtml.spawn('pdf');
pdf.stdout.pipe(response);
pdf.stdin.end('<h1>Hello World</h1>');

See http://madalgo.au.dk/~jakobt/wkhtmltoxdoc/wkhtmltopdf_0.10.0_rc2-doc.html.

wkhtmltopdf & wkhtmltoimage Installation

Download the appropriate utility from http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list. Compilation instructions can be found here: http://madalgo.au.dk/~jakobt/wkhtmltoxdoc/wkhtmltopdf_0.10.0_rc2-doc.html

The pdf and image features are in separate utilities. You will need to download the utility for the feature(s) you plan on using.

node-wkhtml Installation

npm install node-wkhtml

Examples

See the /examples directory.