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Printing local HTML file on Mac does not work #216

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karzelek-hi opened this issue Feb 8, 2018 · 5 comments
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Printing local HTML file on Mac does not work #216

karzelek-hi opened this issue Feb 8, 2018 · 5 comments

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@karzelek-hi
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I tried to run electron-pdf on several HTML files I have on my local iMac, but the output PDF is always completely blank.
When running electron-pdf on an URL presenting the very same HTML content all works fine, just like one would expect.

Also tried to naming the CSS manually for the local HTML files, did not work either.

  • electron-pdf Version is 1.2.2, installed via NPM
  • macOS version is 10.13.3
@codecounselor
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If you can include the command you invoked, the output, and a sample HTML file that may help someone troubleshoot your issue.

@karzelek-hi
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While creating test HTML I think I came closer to the reason: Relative references to files go wrong.

The HTML is stupidly simple:

<html><head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Hello World</h1>
</body></html>

When calling in the bash (being in the directory containing this HTML) the following command I get a purely empty PDF:

electron-pdf ./index.html ~/Desktop/empty.pdf

empty.pdf

But when I name the input file with full file name the result is correct:

electron-pdf ~/Desktop/index.html ~/Desktop/correct.pdf

correct.pdf

@defusioner
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defusioner commented Nov 17, 2018 •
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+1
[email protected],
MacOS 10.14.1

@defusioner
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defusioner commented Aug 30, 2019 •
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UPD: for "electron-pdf": "4.0.8" (in my case, using with CRA), the problem was that CRA generates its assets relatively: in the final HTML, an asset is included as /static/... instead of ./static/....

So simple config: adding homepage: './' to package.json solved the problem

@muster-mark
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electron-pdf ~/Desktop/index.html ~/Desktop/correct.pdf

Can the docs be updated to specify that an absolute file path is required on Mac? Doing it how the docs suggest doesn't work on Mac and causes much headache.

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