How to install wkhtmltopdf on a linux based (shared hosting) web server

Question

I have tried in all ways to get wkhtmltopdf installed on our web server but unfortunately it is not getting installed. I cannot access user/bin folder as st

Answer 1

Place the wkhtmltopdf executable on the server and chmod it +x.

Create an executable shell script wrap.sh containing:

#!/bin/sh
export HOME="$PWD"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/lib/"
exec $@ 2>/dev/null
#exec $@ 2>&1 # debug mode

Download needed shared objects for that architecture and place them an a folder named "lib":

• lib/libfontconfig.so.1
• lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0
• lib/libfreetype.so.6
• lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.18
• lib/libX11.so.6 lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
• lib/libXau.so.6 lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
• lib/libxcb.so.1 lib/libxcb.so.1.0.0
• lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0
• lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0.0.0
• lib/libXdmcp.so.6
• lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
• lib/libXext.so.6 lib/libXext.so.6.4.0

(some of them are symlinks)

… and you're ready to go:

./wrap.sh ./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --page-size A4 --disable-internal-links --disable-external-links "http://www.example.site/" out.pdf

If you experience font problems like squares for all the characters, define TrueType fonts explicitly:

@font-face {
  font-family:Trebuchet MS;
  font-style:normal;
  font-weight:normal;
  src:url("http://www.yourserver.tld/fonts/Trebuchet_MS.ttf");
  format(TrueType);
}