[Poll] You wanted PDF, you got PDF

[Rushabh Mehta]

Hello,

PDF is done! Yes it was embarassingly easy with wkhtmltopdf (a webkit + qt library that emulates browser behaviour to render the page, then converts it to HTML). We got stuck in font issues though on Linux + CentOS, but we will release it later today.

So the next poll is now ready:

https://erpnext.com/polls/development-poll-2

thanks,

Rushabh

@rushabh_mehta

https://erpnext.org

[robert]

Besides a more beautiful default print format believe that an easier ways for the end-user to design (or adapt from default) the print formats would be highly appreciated. 

robert

[Christoph H. Larsen]

Dear All,
As improved .pdf prinitnghas been on the wishlist, and is still a bit of an issue, I revisted the current strategy to use

wkhtmltopdf.

.. which is pretty humongous by any stretch of imagination. How about this one: http://www.weasyprint.org/?
WeasyPrint stems from the same FLOSS community that created Radicale, that tiny, fast and secure CardDAV/CalDAV server, and, yes, it uses Python.
While I am not at all any expert, I have the feeling that it may be at least casting an eye over this converter...
Thoughts?
Bests from Kampala,
Chris

[Pratik Vyas]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Christoph H. Larsen
<christoph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> As improved .pdf prinitnghas been on the wishlist, and is still a bit of an
> issue, I revisted the current strategy to use
>
> wkhtmltopdf.
>
> .. which is pretty humongous by any stretch of imagination. How about this
> one: http://www.weasyprint.org/?
> WeasyPrint stems from the same FLOSS community that created Radicale, that
> tiny, fast and secure CardDAV/CalDAV server, and, yes, it uses Python.
> While I am not at all any expert, I have the feeling that it may be at least
> casting an eye over this converter...
> Thoughts?
> Bests from Kampala,
> Chris
>
>

Hi Chris,

If I remember correctly, we did try weasyprint among many other
solutions (at least Anand and I did try it months before the final
decision) but I don't remember the reason why we rejected it.

wkhtmltopdf is a huge 35M blob with QT, etc in it but comes really
close to what we see on the browser.

If you find weasyprint better, you can submit a patch (maybe we can
configure the converter configurable).

https://github.com/frappe/frappe/blob/develop/frappe/utils/pdf.py has
pdf specific code.

Didn't know that weasyprint is from the radicale guys :)

Thanks,
--
Pratik
erpnext

[Y Y]

I've got to say, I have't exported pdf successfully, always error reported.

1. latest wkhtmltopdf is 0.12, however apt-get one is 0.9

2. manually install wkhtmltopdf 0.12 need to install many dependencies, however which is lack documentation?

I tried in debian and ubantu, if anyone has experience to share, would be grateful!

在 2014年7月8日星期二UTC+8下午2时07分22秒，rushabh写道：

[Rushabh Mehta]

We tried weasy print, but it required a certain quality of HTML and a lot of our current templates failed, the webkit engine will be as close to full-proof as possible...

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[Pratik Vyas]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Y Y <yangy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got to say, I have't exported pdf successfully, always error reported.
> 1. latest wkhtmltopdf is 0.12, however apt-get one is 0.9
> 2. manually install wkhtmltopdf 0.12 need to install many dependencies,
> however which is lack documentation?
>
> I tried in debian and ubantu, if anyone has experience to share, would be
> grateful!

Binaries from the downloads page on wkhtmltopdf have worked for us on
Debian and Ubuntu.
We install it multiple times in a day on our CI environment,
https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/blob/develop/.travis.yml

What were the dependencies that were missing?

Just use `wkhtmltopdf https://en.wikipedia.org a.pdf` to test your installation.

Also, the bench auto install script is missing wkhtmltopdf for
debian/ubuntu, will add it soon.

Thanks,
--
Pratik
erpnext

[Y Y]

The dependencies like libxtender, fontconfig,libc++6 etc. Looking forward to your updated bench. Thanks.

在 2014年9月3日星期三UTC+8下午1时10分33秒，Pratik Vyas写道：