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wkhtmltopdf in core
April 14, 2013, 10:52:09 am
Why are we still bundling dompdf instead of wkhtmltopdf? Is there a licensing issue with the latter?
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Re: wkhtmltopdf in core
April 14, 2013, 12:34:18 pm
Cause it's an extra external dependency that seems to be fairly trivial (eg needs x11 client) ?

Phantomjs is an alternate option, that might be more widely supported
http://we-love-php.blogspot.be/2012/12/create-pdf-invoices-with-html5-and-phantomjs.html

Might be good as an extension, probably needs a hook to replace the php only pdf generation

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Re: wkhtmltopdf in core
April 14, 2013, 01:48:22 pm

dompdf == php

wkhtmltopdf == native binary, hence we cannot bundle it nor can we assume it exists

but wk == webkit rendering engine, which means it probably scale and renders a lot nicer than anything else

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