Is there any wkhtmltopdf option to convert html text rather than file?

Question

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) woul

Answer 1

You can pipe content into wkhtmltopdf using the command line. For Windows, try this:

echo "
blep
" | wkhtmltopdf.exe - test.pdf

This reads like "echo

blep

, 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.