Description

Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.

Introduction

Searching the web, I have found several command line tools that allow you to convert a HTML-document to a PDF-document, however they all seem to use their own, and rather incomplete rendering engine, resulting in poor quality. Recently QT 4.4 was released with a WebKit widget (WebKit is the engine of Apples Safari, which is a fork of the KDE KHtml), and making a good tool became very easy.

News

• Oct 25 2009: Pushed out beta 2 release of 0.9.0, with some small fixes to beta 1. You can find an incomplete manual here
• Oct 25 2009: Pushed out beta 1 release of 0.9.0, please report any issues you find in the bug tracker, if there already is an issue please update it and write that it is still valid in the beta, if some of the issues are fixed please state that as well, see the change log for details.
• Aug 11 2009: Development moved to git http://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf
• Jul 27 2009: Added OS-X builds (Thanks to Bernhard Valenti)
• Jul 21 2009: Updated many parts of the site.
• Jul 21 2009: Version 0.8.3 released, see the changelog for details.

Guide

To use this software download the latest static release unpack it and run it like

wkhtmltopdf www.myhomepage.com myhomepage.pdf

for a full list of available options see

wkhtmltopdf --help

The static release is not really self contained so it might not work for you, see the [foo static] guide for ways to make it work, or the compilation guide to compile it for your system. For more usage examples see the usage section.

Features

• Convert web pages into PDF documents using webkit
• Adding headers and footers (static version only)
• TOC generation (static version only)
• Batch mode convertions
• (Linux) No longer requires an XServer to be running (however the X11 client libs must be installed)

Help

If you have any problems or comments please feel free to contact me: see http://www.daimi.au.dk/~jakobt/#about