WKHTMLToPDF Alternatives

WKHTMLToPDF reviews and mentions

• wkhtmltopdf in Docker in 2026: musl, libssl1.1, and the ways out
  5 projects | dev.to | 27 Aug 2026

  All three have the same root cause: the project is archived (January 2023, repository read-only) and the last official packages were built in May 2023 — release 0.12.6.1-3, whose newest targets are Debian 12 (bookworm) and Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy). The distros kept moving; the binaries stopped. Here is what each error actually means, the recipe that still works in 2026, and the honest exits.

• wkhtmltopdf is archived with an open CVE — a field guide to moving off it
  8 projects | dev.to | 26 Aug 2026

  The project is archived. The GitHub repository was archived on January 2, 2023 and is read-only: no maintainers, no releases, no security patches — ever.

• WKHTMLToPDF VS plutobook - a user suggested alternative
  2 projects | 19 Jun 2025
• Job Adventures - PDF generation | Jun 2024
  3 projects | dev.to | 23 Jun 2024

  Some of those problems I had in the past, but at the time I was just rendering tables for a financial report. The main problem I remember having was the CSS part and the long generation time. Because I was not implementing the styling at the time, the CSS part was not really my problem, and I am sure wicked_pdf provides some default styles to help in this part. The long processing times were a problem because we were generating pdfs with over 100 pages, this process would take about 5 min and would get worse if more pdfs were being requested in parallel. I can’t remember what the solution was at the time but I think we ended up generating some pdfs in the background and sending them by email when ready. The wicked_pdf gem uses an instance of https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf under the hood. This causes problems because it can only generate pdfs one by one. The solution would probably be having a dedicated service that would orchestrate multiple wkhtmltopdf instances.

• Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024
• Working with PDFs in Ruby
  4 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2023

  We’ll start with the WickedPDF gem, which is powered by the wkhtmltopdf command-line library.

• Any good tutorials for working with pdfs in Rust?
  5 projects | /r/rust | 19 Nov 2022

  The only “sane” way I’ve found to be able to deal with pdfs is through this tool https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

• Batch saving webpages to PDFs? (Sub wiki page deleted)
  2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 27 Oct 2022

  wget + https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

• Get attributes from another session without loading that session
  3 projects | /r/symfony | 13 Oct 2022

  Thanks for the suggestion! KnpSnappyBundle was my initial way to go as well, but my pages use quite some Javascript (chartJs) to render and I couldn’t get wkhtmltopdf to work with it. As it seems wkhtmltopdf does not support ES6 https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues/3596 so I was forced to find another way.

• Open Source Tool to create a PDF structure via coding?
  2 projects | /r/webdev | 5 Oct 2022

  wkhtmltopdf — Generates PDFs from HTML documents.

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