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Jason Cooper
Jason Cooper

Reputation: 414

wkhtmltopdf generates tiny output on Mac

I'm running wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 on Mac OS 10.11.6. When I try to run the basic example "wkhtmltopdf http://google.com google.pdf", though, I'm getting an unusual output. Where I'm expecting something like this:

Expected

(PDF generated directly from Chrome), I'm instead getting this:

enter image description here

It seems odd to me that the default output should be so far off, but I've tried some options as well (including --disable-smart-shrinking) with no luck. Would appreciate any direction you can offer!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4084

Answers (5)

kang111
kang111

Reputation: 11

I have been trying to use the 0.12.4 version on Mac OS 10.13.3. Adding some information about this issue.

  1. This is a known issue in 0.12.4 version. https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues/3241
  2. It has been fixed in a commit but not yet released as part of 0.12.4 https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/commit/1c0e72d2faa6da026edc139fac97fcda43535fd3
  3. the 'lowquality' flag fix discussed above is the fastest way to resolve this OR you can install the 0.12.5 version if you are an advanced user. https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Upvotes: 1

JPR
JPR

Reputation: 61

Same here with Mac OS 10.11.6 WKHTMLTOPDF v 0.12.4.

Using --lowquality is the only thing that seems to resolve the "tiny output" issue.

Default wkhtmltopdf output without --lowquality: screenshot

With --lowquality, "tiny output" issue is fixed (and works with additional options like increasing resolution via --viewport-size): --lowquality screenshot

Upvotes: 6

owend
owend

Reputation: 56

I had the same problem, using wkhtmltopdf version 0.12.4 on a Mac installed via homebrew. I uninstalled that and tried version 0.12.3, downloaded from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/, and now I have normal size output.

Upvotes: 4

wintron
wintron

Reputation: 187

I encountered this issue when running wkhtmltopdf on very large screens, and found that specifying print media-type instead of screen media-type, i.e. via --print-media-type, resolved the issue.

For example:

wkhtmltopdf --print-media-type http://google.com google.pdf

Upvotes: 0

Piotr Galas
Piotr Galas

Reputation: 4776

To solve problem install wkpdftohtml via

brew install Caskroom/cask/wkhtmltopdf

Upvotes: 0

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