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I have installed the drupal Print module, but have not been successful in getting wkhtmltopdf to work. The drupal print documentation is outdated and despite of a number of request to update it, it still is outdated. https://www.drupal.org/node/306882

CASE DESCRIPTION In my case, I want to allow the creation of pdf versions of nodes. The Nodes have inline CSS (using Tinymce editor with Wysiwyg). I tried using Dompdf library, but the inline css is not being used for the created pdf.

I have read that wkhtmltopdf creates an internal browser that renders a html page, so that should be the ideal solution in this case.

However, after downloading the rpm file from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/ into the sites/all/libraries folder of my website, and installing it using rpm -Uvh wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-centos6-amd64.rpm in my website, the library is not recognized, not visible in the status report page and not in the pdf configuration page /admin/config/user-interface/print/pdf

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  • Have restarted your web server and made sure the installed executables have the correct permissions so that that the web server process has access to it?
    – Shawn Conn
    Commented Apr 11, 2015 at 16:31
  • Are you sure the library is installed in sites/all/libraries? As far as I recall, RPM install files in system directories.
    – avpaderno ♦
    Commented Apr 12, 2015 at 4:28
  • I have restarted the website, the rpm has the correct permissions, the command line test to create a pdf of www.google.com was successful. But wkhtmltopdf is not visible as option in not in the pdf configuration page /admin/config/user-interface/print/pdf
    – Yuri
    Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 3:13
  • Is this for D7 and D8?
    – usernameabc
    Commented Jan 10, 2018 at 17:38
  • This is for D7.
    – Yuri
    Commented Jan 10, 2018 at 20:58

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In addition to Yuri's answer, I wanted to provide more detail for how I solved this issue, where I couldn't resolve the following error:

No PDF generation tool found! Please download a supported PHP PDF generation tool

  1. install the print module
  2. install pdf php handlers and libraries for your environment from https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html; see note
  3. create symlink in sites/all/libraries/wkhtmltopdf to library in server; make sure symlink is executable to the server sudo chown -h [owner]and sudo chgrp -h [group]
  4. install and enable phpwkhtmltopdf
  5. run drush make --no-core -y sites/all/modules/contrib/phpwkhtmltopdf/phpwkhtmltopdf.make
  6. enable print_pdf_wkhtmltopdf
  7. set up and customize; see recommendations in this blog for more info

Note: My local dev environment is on a Mac OS X so I had to download and run the package, then create a symlink to sites/all/libraries/wkhtmltopdffrom /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf

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  • Why do you need the print module?
    – eSentrik
    Commented Mar 1, 2018 at 19:02
  • Good question. I can only guess that I needed to use the print module for printer friendly pages and then needed the other stuff for it to work.
    – Christia
    Commented Mar 6, 2018 at 3:45

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