Generate PDF from HTML page with CSS support

For the generation of the PDF from any HTML page the Qt's webkit can be used. The project home:
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

It works like a browser, which send the page on virtual pdf printer. The result is very close to the source page.

• QT 4.4 or above (Runtime dep)
• CMake 2.6 or above (Compiletime dep)
• Subvertion (For SVN builds)

svn checkout http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wkhtmltopdf
cd wkhtmltopdf
cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .
make
make install

To convert a remote HTML file to PDF:

wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com google.pdf

To convert a local HTML file to PDF:

wkhtmltopdf my.html my.pdf

You can also convert to PS files if you like:

wkhtmltopdf my.html my.ps

• Firstly you should install the “Xvfb” server. It's required because the wkhtmltopdf application will require an X11 server. Please note that you have to add this service to the auto-loading, but for the tests you can run:

/usr/bin/Xvfb :0 -screen 0 1024x768x24 -ac

• Run the following command to test the PDF generation:

DISPLAY=":0.0" wkhtmltopdf http://www.arscommunity.com community.pdf

• Use exec in your php script:

<?php
function func_generate_pdf($in_file, $out_file) {
 $exec = sprintf('DISPLAY="%s" %s %s %s', ':0.0', 'wkhtmltopdf', $in_file, $out_file);
 exec($exec, $result);
}
?>