phantomjs pdf to stdout

Question

I am desperately trying to output a PDF generated by phantomJS to stdout like here

What I am getting is an empty PDF file, although it is not 0 in size, it displays a bl

Answer 1

Yes, that's right ISO-8859-1 is the default encoding for QT so you will need to add the required parameter to the command line --output-encoding=ISO-8859-1 so the pdf output won't be corrupted

i.e.

phantomjs.exe rasterize.js --output-encoding=ISO-8859-1 < input.html > output.pdf

and rasterize.js looks like this (tested, works for both Unix and Windows)

var page = require('webpage').create(),
system = require('system');

page.viewportSize = {width: 600, height: 600};
page.paperSize = {format: 'A4', orientation: system.args[1], margin: '1cm'};

page.content = system.stdin.read();

window.setTimeout(function () {
    try {
        page.render('/dev/stdout', {format: 'pdf'});
    }
    catch (e) {
        console.log(e.message + ';;' + output_file);
    }
    phantom.exit();
}, 1000);

or alternatively you can set encoding using stdout and if you are reading from UTF-8 stream then you might have to set encoding for stdin as well;

system.stdout.setEncoding('ISO-8859-1');
system.stdin.setEncoding('UTF-8');
page.content = system.stdin.read();