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I've seen multiple questions that are very similar to this one, so I was hesitant at first to post it. But nothing suggested resolved my issue and I can't seem to figure out what's wrong myself.
For a project I made for one client they wanted to ability to convert quotes for their customers (generated using an online form) to PDFs. Simple enough. As the entire project was in PHP, I used the following simple process:
This worked until they changed servers. The new server has a firewall.
At first the PDF conversion step was returning a firewall page saying that the server couldn't make outbound connections. To resolve this I fed the HTML file directly instead of linking to it (/var/www/mysite/temp/18382.html instead of www.example.com/temp/18382.html). This converted the HTML, but the firewall prevented the loading of CSS and images
I can overcome the CSS by simply embedding it directly in the site instead of linking to it (using the <style> tags), but this doesn't work for images
I tried using relative links first. I changed <img src="http://www.example.com/temp/image.jpg" /> to <img src="./image.jpg" />. This didn't work.
Next I tried <img src="file:///var/www/mysite/temp/image.jpg" /> but this didn't work, either
I read around and look through the WkHTMLtoPDF manual and I tried several different command line arguments like --enable-local-file-access, --enable /var/www/mysite/temp/, and --images but nothing seems to fix it
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Open a command prompt window. The syntax for using the tool is fairly simple, enter the name wkhtmltopdf, followed by the URL of the web page, and the name of the PDF that you want to create, like so.
In my case - wkhtmltopdf version 0.12.2.1 (with patched qt) - adding a base tag to the head section with the absolute path made sure images and css did get loaded.
<html> <head> ... <base href="http://www.example.com/"> <link href="/assets/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet"> ... </head> If your are on linux check the ownership of your images. For windows you will find some info on http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/wiki/Usage.
I tried different kind of paths to the image:
<img src="file:///var/www/testpdf/flowers.jpg"><br><img src="./flowers.jpg"><br><img src="flowers.jpg"><br> <img src="/var/www/testpdf/flowers.jpg"><br> all images are showed correct. I didn't use any command line arguments (only wkhtmltopdf /var/www/testpdf/makepdf.html makepdf.pdf)
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