phpwkhtmltopdf: Failed with Error "Loading pages (1/6) [> ] 0% [======> ] 10%"

I tested with following code:

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
use mikehaertl\wkhtmlto\Pdf;

$pdf = new Pdf('<html><head></head><body>Hello pdf</body></html>');
$pdf->binary = '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf';

if (!$pdf->saveAs('/var/www/cgi-bin/pdf/test.pdf')) {
    echo $pdf->getError();
}
?>

The Page only displays: “Loading pages (1/6) [> ] 0% [======> ] 10%”

My Testserver:

[root@dev-php-composer pdf]# apachectl -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
Server built:   Aug 24 2015 17:52:49
[root@dev-php-composer pdf]# php -v
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Jul  9 2015 17:39:00)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
[root@dev-php-composer pdf]# uname -a
Linux dev-php-composer 2.6.32-504.1.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 11 17:57:25 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/var/www/cgi-bin/pdf/ has this linux rights drwxr-xr-x and user apache

Any Tips to get it working?

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 60 (23 by maintainers)

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my particular issue was the usage of data-uri’s in image tags. letting wkhtmltopdf fetch the images with a http request solved the problem, table renders!

r3wt on Nov 6, 2015

For anyone still interested:

I’ve meanwhile completely refactored the way we work with the I/O streams with proc_open(). This was probably the root cause for many weird hanging issues and the fix is not really trivial. If you have a chance to give it a try, this would be great.

You’d have to replace your copy of vendor/mikehaertl/php-shellcommand with the branch 20-add-stream_set_blocking-calls from this PR: https://github.com/mikehaertl/php-shellcommand/pull/41.

Any feedback welcome - but please comment on the related issue of php-shellcommand.

mikehaertl on Aug 16, 2019

I’ve released 2.4.1 which will use the latest version of php-shellcommand which should fix many issues with commands that generate a lot of output (which is probably the main reason for many issues).

So I’m closing this for now. If there are still issues, feel free to leave a comment.

mikehaertl on Aug 17, 2019

@mikehaertl thank you, i assume you are right. if i get any time i will see if i can figure anything out

yehudahkay on May 24, 2018

Hmm. Not sure then. Must have to do with wkthmltopdf and how it loads images. It never was perfect. So maybe the Chrome based library that @daudmalik06 posted above works for you.

mikehaertl on Jul 17, 2017