Is there any wkhtmltopdf option to convert html text rather than file?
html, pdf, wkhtmltopdf
Solution
You can pipe content into wkhtmltopdf using the command line. For Windows, try this:
echo "<h3>blep</h3>" | wkhtmltopdf.exe - test.pdf
This reads like "echo `<h3>blep</h3>`, output it's stdout (standard out stream) to wkhtmltopdf stdin (standard in stream)".
The dash `-` in the wkhtmltopdf command means that it takes it's input from stdin and not a file.
You could also echo HTML into a file, feed that file to wkhtmltopdf and delete that file inside a script.
Problem
I recently stumbled on wkhtmltopdf and have found it to be an excellent tool for on-the-fly conversion from html to pdf in the browser. A typical usage (in Windows) would go: ``` wkhtmltopdf.exe --some-option "<div>Some html <b>formatted</b> text</div>" www.host.com/page_to_print.html file.pdf ``` My question is: Is there an option to use `<html><head></head><body><h1>This is a header</h1></body></html>` in place of `www.host.com/page_to_print.html`? Thanks for any help.