Downloads and installs wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage
npm install wkhtmlto-installer> npm install wkhtmlto-installer
An NPM installer for wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimageutilitys. The package automatically downloads platform specific wkhtmltopdf binary if not already available as global command.
This package is fork of wkhtmltopdf-installer that has API to use wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage.
``javascript
var path = require('path');
var childProcess = require('child_process');
var binPath = require('wkhtmltopdf-installer').path.pdf;
var childArgs = [
path.join(__dirname, 'test.html'),
path.join(__dirname, 'out.pdf'),
]
childProcess.execFile(binPath, childArgs, function(err, stdout, stderr) {
// handle results
})
`
There is currently support just for x64.
wkhtmltodf downloads page provides different packages for every linux distribution and version. This project currently just grabs the binary from Linux (Debian Wheezy)`. These binaries seems to work on Ubuntu as well.