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Written by Marco Roth on 2025-01-07 at 14:56

What are people using now that wkhtmltopdf is deprecated?

Is there a maintained fork or a good drop-in replacement?

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Written by Marco Roth on 2025-01-07 at 15:05

I've been using Ferrum using the pdf method, but I was more looking for a CLI-based utility that doesn't need to open a browser.

Maybe the answer is just that there isn't a real drop-in replacement because it will never be as accurate as opening a browser.

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Written by alexanderadam on 2025-01-07 at 16:21

@marcoroth please ping me once you found something.

PS: I thought that the base, wkhtml, was deprecated ages ago anyway?

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Written by Marco Roth on 2025-01-07 at 18:56

@alexanderadam yeah it was deprecated back in 2023.

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Written by PointlessOne :loading: on 2025-01-07 at 21:44

@alexanderadam @marcoroth So… it depends on what you’re trying to achieve.

If you want to preserve an arbitrary web page as close to browser as possible you probably should use a browser.

If you’re trying to produce high quality PDFs from HTML you probably should go with Weasyprint (open source), AH Formatter, or PDFReactor.

If you want to generate PDFs from Ruby you should go for HexaPDF or Prawn.

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