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Reproduces the pdfkit 0.5.3 behaviour with paths that contain spaces on Windows. Tested with RubyInstaller Ruby 1.9.3p392
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pdfkit_0.5.3_windows_bug.rb
require 'pdfkit'
def reproduce html,output,path_to_wk
PDFKit.configure do |config|
config.wkhtmltopdf = path_to_wk
end
kit=PDFKit.new(html,:page_size=>'A4')
kit.to_file(output)
end
html =<<-EOT
<html>
<body><h1>Hello World</h1></body>
</html>
EOT
output="test.pdf"
path_to_wk='c:/Program Files/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf.exe'
#D:/tools/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfkit-0.5.3/lib/pdfkit/pdfkit.rb:66:in `popen': No such file or direct
#ory - "c:/Program\ Files/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf.exe" "--page-size" "A4" "--margin-top" "0.75in"
#"--margin-right" "0.75in" "--margin-bottom" "0.75in" "--margin-left" "0.75in" "--encoding" "UTF-8" "--quiet" "-" "test.pdf"
# (Errno::ENOENT)
reproduce(html,output,path_to_wk)
path_to_wk='"c:/Program Files/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf.exe"'
#D:/tools/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfkit-0.5.3/lib/pdfkit/pdfkit.rb:31:
#in `initialize': No wkhtmltopdf executable found at "c:/Program Files/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf.exe"
#(PDFKit::NoExecutableError)
#>> Please install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit/wiki/Installing-WKHTMLTOPDF
reproduce(html,output,path_to_wk)
path_to_wk='c:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
#D:/tools/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfkit-0.5.3/lib/pdfkit/pdfkit.rb:66:in `popen': No such file or direct
#ory - "c:\\Program\ Files\\wkhtmltopdf\\wkhtmltopdf.exe" "--page-size" "A4" "--margin-top" "0.75in"
#"--margin-right" "0.75in" "--margin-bottom" "0.75in" "--margin-left" "0.75in" "--encoding" "UTF-8" "--quiet" "-" "test.pdf"
#(Errno::ENOENT)
reproduce(html,output,path_to_wk)
path_to_wk='"c:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltopdf.exe"'
#D:/tools/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pdfkit-0.5.3/lib/pdfkit/pdfkit.rb:31:
#in `initialize': No wkhtmltopdf executable found at "c:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltopdf.exe"
#(PDFKit::NoExecutableError)
#>> Please install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit/wiki/Installing-WKHTMLTOPDF
reproduce(html,output,path_to_wk)
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