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NAME

Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf - Catalyst view to convert HTML (or TT) content to PDF using wkhtmltopdf

STATUS

The wkhtmltopdf project is no longer being maintained, and this module will be deprecated in a later release.

See "SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS".

SYNOPSIS

# lib/MyApp/View/Wkhtmltopdf.pm
package MyApp::View::Wkhtmltopdf;
use Moose;
extends qw/Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf/;
__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable();
1;

# configure in lib/MyApp.pm
MyApp->config({
  ...
  'View::Wkhtmltopdf' => {
      command   => '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf',
      # Guessed via File::Spec by default
      tmpdir    => '/usr/tmp',
      # Name of the Template view, "TT" by default
      tt_view   => 'Template',
  },
});

sub ciao : Local {
    my($self, $c) = @_;

    # Pass some HTML...
    $c->stash->{wk} = {
        html    => $web_page,
    };

    # ..or a TT template
    $c->stash->{wk} = {
        template    => 'hello.tt',
        page_size   => 'a5',
    };

    # More parameters...
    $c->stash->{wk} = {
        html        => $web_page,
        disposition => 'attachment',
        filename    => 'mydocument.pdf',
    };

    $c->forward('View::Wkhtmltopdf');
}

DESCRIPTION

Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf is a Catalyst view handler that converts HTML data to PDF using wkhtmltopdf. It can also handle direct conversion of Template-Toolkit templates via Catalyst::View::TT.

RECENT CHANGES

Changes for version v0.6.0 (2026-07-24)

See the Changes file for more details.

REQUIREMENTS

wkhtmltopdf must be installed.

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::Wkhtmltopdf

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

Do not use wkhtmltopdf with untrusted HTML.

The wkhtmltopdf project is no longer being maintained, and the underlying QtWebKit libraries that it uses have been unsupported since 2015.

The git repository was archived as read-only in 2023.

You should consider migrating to alternative solutions.

SUPPORT

Only the latest version of this module will be supported.

Future releases may only support Perl versions released in the last ten (10) years.

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Catalyst-View-Wkhtmltopdf

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

If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see SECURITY.md for instructions how to report security vulnerabilities.

SOURCE

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

Note that the git repository has changed since version v0.6.0.

AUTHOR

Michele Beltrame mb@italpro.net

This module is currently maintained by Robert Rothenberg perl@rhizomnic.com.

CONTRIBUTORS

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2018, 2026 by Michele Beltrame mb@italpro.net.

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

SEE ALSO

Catalyst

Catalyst::View::TT

https://wkhtmltopdf.org