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NAME

Catalyst::View::ChromePDF - convert HTML (or TT) content to PDF using Chrome

SYNOPSIS

In your application, create a view, e.g. lib/MyApp/View/ChromePDF.pm:

package MyApp::View::ChromePDF;

use Moose;
extends 'Catalyst::View::ChromePDF';

__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable();

In the application, e.g. lib/MyApp.pm specify the "CONFIGURATION":

__PACKAGE__->config(

    # Configure Template-Toolkit

    'View::TT' => {
        INCLUDE_PATH       => [ __PACKAGE__->path_to('root'), ],
        ENCODING           => 'utf-8',
        TIMER              => 0,
        TEMPLATE_EXTENSION => '.tt',
        ABSOLUTE           => 1,
        render_die         => 1
    },

    # Configure View::ChromePDF

    'View::ChromePDF' => {
        stash_key => 'pdf',
        page_size => 'a4',
    },

);

In a controller method, specify "PARAMETERS":

$c->stash->{pdf} = {
  template  => 'base.tt',
  page_size => 'a5',      # override default
};

$c->forward('View::ChromePDF');

DESCRIPTION

This is a Catalyst view for rendering web pages of PDFs using Chrome or a Chrome-compatible browser with WWW::Mechanize::Chrome.

It is intended as a successor to Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf.

RECENT CHANGES

Changes for version v0.1.1 (2026-08-08)

See the Changes file for more details.

REQUIREMENTS

This module lists the following modules as runtime dependencies:

See the cpanfile file for the full list of prerequisites.

INSTALLATION

The latest version of this module (along with any dependencies) can be installed from CPAN with the cpan tool that is included with Perl:

cpan Catalyst::View::ChromePDF

You can also extract the distribution archive and install this module (along with any dependencies):

cpan .

You can also install this module manually using the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

If you are working with the source repository, then it may not have a Makefile.PL file. But you can use the Dist::Zilla tool in anger to build and install this module:

dzil build
dzil test
dzil install --install-command="cpan ."

For more information, see How to install CPAN modules.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

HTML

It is assumed that the content of the rendered HTML that as saved as a PDF is controlled and trusted by the developer.

The default configuration of "mech" does not block file: URLs. That is a feature, not a bug or oversight.

Temporary Files

Temporary HTML and PDF files are saved in "tmpdir". They may be left in the directory on failure.

When returning a filehandle instead of the PDF content, the PDF files are not removed when "send_filehandle" is true.

A separate process will need to purge files, to prevent them from filling the disk, as well as to remove sensitive information.

SUPPORT

Only the latest version of this module will be supported.

This module requires Perl v5.24 or later. Future releases may only support Perl versions released in the last ten (10) years.

Reporting Bugs and Submitting Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/robrwo/perl-Catalyst-View-ChromePDF/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

Reporting Security Vulnerabilities

Security issues should not be reported on the bugtracker website. Please see SECURITY.md for instructions how to report security vulnerabilities

SOURCE

The development version is on github at https://github.com/robrwo/perl-Catalyst-View-ChromePDF and may be cloned from https://github.com/robrwo/perl-Catalyst-View-ChromePDF.git

AUTHOR

Robert Rothenberg perl@rhizomnic.com

The initial development of this module was sponsored in part by Science Photo Library https://www.sciencephoto.com.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2026 by Robert Rothenberg perl@rhizomnic.com.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.