Question: How html to pdf works?

[guilhermedecampo]

Hi @marcbachmann,

I couldn't understand how you get the data from phantom and transform it in pdf binary. You create something like an image? Because the content is not selectable or links can't be clicked.

Can you explain if you have some time?

Thanks anyways =)

[marcbachmann]

I'm using phantomjs to render the DOM and phantomjs is using QT to convert it to a pdf. I'm only using a phantomjs script. So the pdf generation has nothing to do with this library. It completely depends on phantomjs. Therefore it's the phantomjs renderer (or QPrinter) that has a bug.
It converts everything into paths, so it's not selectable (and the filesize is huge ~500kb per page).
It works on linux.
So there's only a problem on mac.
ariya/phantomjs#10373
ariya/phantomjs#11723
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-26054

[guilhermedecampo]

Cool! Thanks for the time to explain =)

[marcbachmann]

You're welcome. Just ask if you have more questions.

[marcbachmann]

I've just seen that today phantomjs 2.0 using QT5 landed in master: ariya/phantomjs#12329
So it won't take that long until I can implement it in this module. I hope it will bring a few improvements in table positioning and dpi problems. Also the text problem would be solved with this.