A small shell script that uses wkhtmltopdf to build PDF documents from HTML5 documents. Especially suited for creating PDF presentations as a 1 to 1 copy of your HTML presentations. Obviously also useful for PDF screenshots of websites. It's better than a normal screenshot though, because the PDF contains all text and images as separate elements, which can be manipulated individually.
Presentation export is tested with reveal.js. You may want to use the reveal.js config to do customize the size of the presentation to fit the size of your example. The example pdf file (revealjs.pdf) was created using ./html2pdf.sh http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js\?print-pdf revealjs.pdf 1280 768.
Currently mainly useful for playing around.
The program requires wkhtmltopdf to be available. Please check http://wkhtmltopdf.org/ for details.
In order to create a PDF at OUTPUT_LOCATION from a SRC_LOCATION at a resolution of WIDTH x HEIGHT per page, you just need to call
./html2pdf.sh SRC_LOCATION OUTPUT_LOCATION WIDTH HEIGHT
You can also leave out the dimensions and Full HD (1920x1080) resolution will be chosen.
./html2pdf.sh SRC_LOCATION OUTPUT_LOCATION
Note that due to the behaviour of wkhtmltopdf, the SRC_LOCATION can be the full file path or a URL.
You're welcome to fork your own version or provide additions & leave comments. You can also e-mail me at [email protected].
LICENSE: MIT
Copyright (C) 2015 Frédérique Mittelstaedt, gfm.io, [email protected]