[arch-general] wkhtmltopdf

[Evangelos Foutras]

On 11/02/2010 07:57 πμ, andrew james wrote:
> On 02/06/2010 09:57 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
>> On 06/02/2010 01:58 μμ, richard terry wrote:
>>> Hi List/Evangelos:
>>>
>>> This is a really useful utility, I'd like to use it to join documents.
>>>
>>> It dosn't seem to be built against a 'patched version' of qt whatever
>>> that may
>>> mean.:
>>>
>>> "This version of wkhtmltopdf is build against an unpatched version of
>>> QT, and
>>> does not support more then one input document."
>>>
>>> I see that there is a PKGBUILD, and wondered if anyone knew how to get a
>>> 'patched version' of QT to build it against to get more functionality.
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> The wkhtmltopdf package in [community] is built against the vanilla Qt
>> library from [extra]. For uses that require a patched Qt library, your
>> best bet is probably to give the official static build a go. I uploaded
>> a wkhtmltopdf-static [1] package to the AUR for you to try.
>>
>> Let us know if that works for you.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> ----
>> [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34352
>>
> at the project site, there is a precompiled binary, it works patched,
> the i386 works with x86_64 (is what I use) when you have the 32bit
> libraries, for the 32 bit libraries read archlinux wiki

Or you can simply grab the amd64 version that is compiled for x86_64 and 
doesn't need any 32-bit libraries. This is also what the 
wkhtmltopdf-static package does. :)