// 2020-08-31: Merged PR from "bonashen" https://github.com/bonashen, adding example code for using options // 2019-10-02: Reverting back to python2 due to errors, no time for fixing these // 2019-09-02: Build using v0.12.5-1 from DEB-package, updated to Ubuntu 18.04, updated to python3 due to end-of-support python2 // 2018-03-08: Build using v0.12.4 from binary instead of 0.12.2 using apt-get // 2018-04-16: Moved to https://hub.docker.com/r/oberonamsterdam/wkhtmltopdf/, adding github repo for Dockerfile

Based on https://hub.docker.com/r/openlabs/docker-wkhtmltopdf-aas/

Changes:

• Using Ubuntu 18.04 instead of 14.04
• Adding XVFB/libfontconfig to correctly render external fonts
• Updated WKHTMLTOPDF to 0.12.5-1
• Updated to Python3

Running the container

This will create a service on port (only advised for testing-purpose)

docker run -d -p <port>:80 oberonamsterdam/wkhtmltopdf

On production it's advised to run container as a service and expose to your own containers only.

Using the webservice

There are multiple ways to generate a PDF of HTML using the service: uploading a HTML file

This is a convenient way to use the service from command line utilities like curl.

curl -X POST -vv -F 'file=@path/to/local/file.html' http://<docker-host>:<port>/ -o path/to/output/file.pdf

where:

docker-host is the hostname or address of the docker host running the container
port is the public port to which the container is bound to.

Example PHP code using options

	'margin-top' => '25',
	'margin-left' => '25',
	'margin-right' => '25',
	'margin-bottom' => '25',
	'page-size' => 'A4',
	'footer-spacing' => '5',
	'footer-font-size' => 6,
	'footer-right' => 'Page [page] of [topage]',
];

$html = file_gets_content('test.html');
$data = json_encode([
   'contents' => base64_encode($html),
   'options' => $options,
]);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
   CURLOPT_URL => 'http://<docker-host>:<port>',
   CURLOPT_POST => true,
   CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
   CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Content-Type: application/json'],
   CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
]);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

$result will contain the binary PDF output.

Using images in your HTML

1. Use absolute URLs to your images and make sure these URLs are accessible for the wkhtmltopdf-container
2. Mount your files into the wkhtmltopdf-container and use local images: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16627310/wkhtmltopdf-not-loading-local-css-and-images