SlimerJs PDF Render to file

Question

I am looking at SlimerJs (v0.9.6) as an option for rendering PDFs. I have marked up the HTML that the PDF should be rendered from and I run this command to render it out:

slimerjs renderPdf.js

In my renderPdf.js file I have defined:

var webpage = require('webpage').create();
webpage
  .open('page.html') // loads a page
  .then(function() {
    webpage.viewportSize = { width: 1240, height: 1754 };
    webpage.render('page.pdf', { 
                      format:'pdf',
                      onlyViewport:true 
                    });
    slimer.exit();
  });

I see a window open with the HTML page rendered exactly as expected but it doesn't render to the defined file, page.pdf. Is there something I am missing to get it to render out to a file? Or perhaps there's a known issue around this? Any help much appreciated :)

Same here, it does render png files though. I'm using the phantom.js rasterize script for comparison. — three, Aug 04 '15 at 19:55
use the slimer 0.10pre release. 0.9.6 doesn't have pdf rendering included yet. — three, Aug 04 '15 at 21:36

Nirojan Selvanathan · Answer 1 · 2016-11-22T08:57:13.767

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Please note in order to print the webpage to pdf slimer js requires cups pdf. Install the cups pdf with this command then it will render the page to a local file. And higher version than 0.9.6 is needed (0.10.*).

sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

edited Nov 22 '16 at 08:57

answered Nov 22 '16 at 08:34

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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As per @three's comment suggestion I used the 0.10pre release version and was able to get a PDF. Mind you at the time of posting this release is not super stable so might want to wait for the final release build.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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answered Sep 15 '15 at 17:46

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SlimerJs PDF Render to file

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