WKHTMLTOPDF - Where are Scriptcase settings hard-coded?

Scriptcase 8 Bugs
#1

I am having problems with WKHTMLTOPDF. It just doesn’t work on my host provider. I can manually run a command and get it to work:

wkhtmltopdf --page-size Letter --orientation Portrait --outline-depth 0 --header-right “[page]” file:///home/smp66613/public_html/system/_lib/tmp/sc_grid_glaccts_html_7e3b80edd35d19462dadeee17c9b8a74.html /home/smp66613/public_html/system/_lib/tmp/sc_pdf_20150520193712_829_grid_glaccts.pdf

As you can see though, I have to use the file:// directive for a local absolute path. Scriptcase automatically puts in the http:// directive. Also, because I am running on a shared host, the bundled package in _lib/prod/third/wkhtmltopdf/ gives me a bus error when I try to invoke from terminal.

The hosting provider was kind enough to install WKHTMLTOPDF, globally, on the server. I can run the command above with success, but Scriptcase wants to format it like this, which doesn’t work:

./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --page-size Letter --orientation Portrait --outline-depth 0 --header-right “[page]” http://www.mydomain.com/system/_lib/tmp/sc_grid_glaccts_html_7e3b80edd35d19462dadeee17c9b8a74.html /home/smp66613/public_html/system/_lib/tmp/sc_pdf_20150520193712_829_grid_glaccts.pdf

Is there a file in Scriptcase where these settings are can be changed so that I could hard code which wkhtmltopdf application to look at and to tell Scriptcase to use the file:// directive?

Thanks.

#2

No, there is no way to change those settings.
It’s a big problem that NM is using an absolute path (which is hard to understand) instead of a relative path.
Also if you use SSL (https) it will not work, because it always changes to http. You will find a few posts about this.

jsb

#3

In these kind of cases you can check the generated code and alter the code by hand then. It takes some time to find the right place but I guess that is worth it…
Anyway another solution would be to simply use your own commandline and use the php exec function or the shell_exec function. Since your commandline version works this should also work… (not tested tho).

#4

[QUOTE=jsbinca;36800]
Also if you use SSL (https) it will not work, because it always changes to http. You will find a few posts about this.

jsb[/QUOTE]

Hello,

We fixed this problem with SSL and will be offering in the next update.

#5

Hello,

We need more information.
Whats problem happens?
don’t create the pdf, 404 page not found?
Show some error?

–
best regard,
netmake team

#6

[QUOTE=Artur Oliveira;36831]Hello,

We need more information.
Whats problem happens?
don’t create the pdf, 404 page not found?
Show some error?

–
best regard,
netmake team[/QUOTE]

This command fails:

./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --page-size Letter --orientation Portrait --outline-depth 0 --header-right “[page]” http://www.mydomain.com/system/_lib/tmp/sc_grid_invoices_html_7e3b80edd35d19462dadeee17c9b8a74.html /home/smp66613/public_html/system/_lib/tmp/sc_pdf_20150521223507_25_grid_invoices.pdf

This command works using absolute path:

./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --page-size Letter --orientation Portrait --outline-depth 0 --header-right “[page]” /home/smp66613/public_html /system/_lib/tmp/sc_grid_invoices_html_7e3b80edd35d19462dadeee17c9b8a74.html /home/smp66613/public_html/system/_lib/tmp/sc_pdf_20150521223507_25_grid_invoices.pdf

This command works with external websites:

./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --page-size Letter --orientation Portrait --outline-depth 0 --header-right “[page]” http://www.yahoo.com /home/smp66613/public_html/system/_lib/tmp/yahoo_test.pdf

Error I get is:

Failed to load page
Exit with code 1 due to network error: TimeoutError

#7

Is there any update on this topic?
I have no troubles creating PDF, when i run it on my local server.

When trying to create PDF on the Test / Production server (with other URL/Domain), then it says: “PDF generation finished.”, but there is no file at all.
–> Same as described by ‘smp66613’

ERROR then is: [h=1]404[/h] [h=2]Not Found[/h] [SIZE=14px]The resource requested could not be found on this server![/SIZE]
In my logfile in _lib/temp, i can see the following:
./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --page-size Letter --orientation Portrait --outline-depth 0 --header-right “[page]” http://www.ossbali-inventory.com/tes1/_lib/tmp/sc_grid_wood_item_single_html_f043d1008d257843f4aab51b86b4e1fc.html /home/ossbalii/public_html/tes1/_lib/tmp/sc_pdf_20160128115749_831_grid_wood_item_single.pdf

#8

Has you write permissions on this folder?

#9

Yes, i have write permissions on that folder. All other Exports are working (Excel, CSV,…). Put the PDF doesn’t work.

#10

about https, mine was complaining about SSLv3
my solution to update wkhtmltopdf…I grabbed the latest version from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

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