Fork Description

This fork makes the library work using ruby 2 (2.1.5) and Yosemite. The instructions are based on the original guide to installing under Yosemite.

1. Install Ruby through RVM with these options:
   rvm install 2.1.5 --debug --reconfigure -C --enable-shared=yes

2. Start using the newly installed ruby: rvm use 2.1.5

3. Build the gem from this repository using gem build wkpdf.gemspec, then install it using gem install <gem-name>.

4. Edit its bin nano /usr/bin/wkpdf so that in the first #! line it uses your newly installed ruby (do a which ruby and it should be something like ~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/bin/ruby).

5. Download the latest RubyCocoa version:
   wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubycocoa/files/RubyCocoa/1.2.0/RubyCocoa-1.2.0.tar.gz/download RubyCocoa-1.2.0.tar.gz -O RubyCocoa-1.2.0.tar.gz

6. Uncompress into a folder and move into it: tar xzf RubyCocoa-1.2.0.tar.gz && rm RubyCocoa-1.2.0.tar.gz && cd RubyCocoa-1.2.0

7. Modify the install file nano pre-install.rb. (RubyCocoa 1.2.0 doesn't work with El Capitan, out of the box). Add the following two lines at the top:

Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8

1. Modify the config file 'nano pre-config.rb'

• Change the lib_exists method to

def lib_exist?(path, sdkroot=@config['sdkroot'])
  File.exist?(path)
end

• If you're using homebrew, update the libxml2 path from /usr/include to /usr/local/include.

1. Config the RubyCocoa installation: ruby install.rb config --target-archs="x86_64" (see this gist)

2. Setup & run the RubyCocoa installation:
   ruby install.rb setup
sudo ruby install.rb install

3. That's it, run wkpdf's help to test it works: wkpdf --help

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wkpdf

Command line tool for rendering HTML to PDF using WebKit and RubyCocoa on Mac OS X

Although there are plenty of browsers available for Mac OS X, I could not find a command-line tool that allows for downloading a website and storing the rendered website as PDF. This was my motivation for creating wkpdf. The application uses Apple WebKit for rendering the HTML pages, thus the result should look similar to what you get when printing the webpage with Safari.

You find the latest information on how to install and use wkpdf on:

http://plessl.github.com/wkpdf

For questions regarding wkpdf contact: [email protected]

License

Copyright (c) 2007-11 Christian Plessl

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.