wkhtmltopdf failure when embed an SVG

Question

Has anyone in this vast space has ever had the luck to successfully create a PDF with an embedded SVG on an HTML? I\'ve been receiving segmentation fault all the time.

Answer 1

I had similar problem. Seems like javascript embedded in SVG image can cause segmentation fault.

I was generating SVG graphs using pygal Python module. To successfully generate PDF from HTML with SVG graphs I had to do several things:

1. Remove reference to javascript. (In case of pygal add js=() key to a graph constructor).

2. Specify image size in svg tag, like

   (In case of pygal use explicit_size keywoard)

3. Embed SVG image into img tag in base64 encoded form, like

I was using 11th version of wkhtmltopdf.