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Install wkhtmltopdf with patched QT on Ubuntu Linux
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# Uncomment the next line if you have installed wkhtmltopdf | |
# sudo apt remove wkhtmltopdf | |
cd ~ | |
# Select an appropriate link for your system (32 or 64 bit) from the page https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html and past to the next line | |
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz | |
tar xvf wkhtmltox*.tar.xz | |
sudo mv wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmlto* /usr/bin | |
sudo apt-get install -y openssl build-essential libssl-dev libxrender-dev git-core libx11-dev libxext-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev fontconfig |
Had text rendering problems with any method.
I got it fixed installing with:
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
thanks
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Using minimalist Debian (TurnkeyLinux Distribution) tar won't have xz installed so error occurs during tar -xfz:
Solution is to upgrade tar: