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Wkhtmltopdf is a command line utility for converting  webpage / html to  PDF.

Features

• Convert web pages into PDF documents using webkit
• Adding headers and footers (static version only)
• TOC generation (static version only)
• Batch mode conversions
• (Linux) No longer requires an XServer to be running (however the X11 client libs must be installed)

How to install wkhtmltopdf in Ubuntu / Debian

$  sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

Usage:

$ wkhtmltopdf –help

This will provide help for using wkhtmltopdf

If you want to Convert website home page to a PDF document

$ wkhtmltopdf  www.keralalinux.com  keralalinux.pdf

This will convert the home page of www.keralalinux.com to a file named keralalinux.pdf.

Page orientation can be change using  -O option

$ wkhtmltopdf  -O  Landscape www.keralalinux.com  keralalinux.pdf

This will change page orientation to landscape

Page size can be change using  -s  option

$ wkhtmltopdf  -s A4  www.keralalinux.com  keralalinux.pdf

This will change page size to a4  it will support A4, letter etc.

Add  table of contents to the pdf document with -t option

$ wkhtmltopdf  -t  www.keralalinux.com  keralalinux.pdf