PDFKIT does not find wkhtmltopdf

Question

Hi I have looked through all similar posts and implemented the suggestions but still no luck.

Running Python, PDFKIT, Windows 7, Google App Engine.

I get this error when trying to run the program

IOError: No wkhtmltopdf executable found: "C:/Users/nb198011/Documents/Shillan/Personal/Installs/wkhtmltopdf/bin/wkhtmltopdf.exe"

If this file exists please check that this process can read it. Otherwise please install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing-wkhtmltopdf

I have confirmed the file is indeed in that location using the "where" command and I can execute the wkhtmltopdf program from the command line.

I import PDFKIT into my program by holding it in the same folder as my project and wkhtmltopdf is installed into the folder specified in the error message

Any new suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Okay managed to sort it out. Not sure what the problem was though. I uninstalled PDFkit from site-packages and removed all enviro paths to it. Then downloaded a version and copied it to my project folder as before and it worked. – Shillz

Answer 2

I have spent some time ti figure out the process to converting html pages to pdf on mac os. Here are the steps,

1. install pdfkit from pip pip install pdfkit
2. download and install wkhtmltopdf from link

3. Then setup is done, My python file is

   import pdfkit
   config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf="path_to_exe")
   pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf',configuration = config)
   pdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out.pdf',configuration = config)
   pdfkit.from_string('Hello!', 'out.pdf',configuration = config)
   

And it worked perfectly.