I'm running on a shared hosting service, downloaded wkhtmltopdf onto my hosting server and tried running it on the web site's home page. I got a message "cannot load default config file" but otherwise it worked and produced a nice PDF of my home page. Cool!
So I installed the print module and set up the configuration to offer the "save file" option, otherwise leaving all the wkhtmltopdf parameters the same. But when I click on the "PDF" link, I get no result.
In the log files it just says: "wkhtmltopdf: Loading page: 10% "
Can anyone please explain the reason for this and tell me what I am doing wrong?

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jcnventura
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Something must have happened in the PDF generation process, if it stopped at 10%.

In my case, when generating a page, the following message is displayed in the log:

wkhtmltopdf: Loading page: 10% Loading page: 18% Loading page: 100% Waiting for redirect Outputting pages Counting pages 0 of 1 Printing page: 1 of 15 Printing page: 2 of 15 Printing page: 3 of 15 Printing page: 4 of 15 Printing page: 5 of 15 Printing page: 6 of 15 Printing page: 7 of 15 Printing page: 8 of 15 Printing page: 9 of 15 Printing page: 10 of 15 Printing page: 11 of 15 Printing page: 12 of 15 Printing page: 13 of 15 Printing page: 14 of 15 Printing page: 15 of 15 Done

Try to generate the output of the printer-friendly version directly in the command line. If it succeeds in generating the PDF, then the problem must be in the PHP limits for external programs.

João

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joel_guesclin commented

I tried doing this, I tried two things:
First,

./wkhtmltopdf http://www.mysite.com/en/printpdf/book/export/html/25 test.pdf

This worked in the sense that it produced a PDF file, however the PDF file reproduced all the formatting of the web page whereas I had expected it to look more like the book print.
Second, I tried this:

./wkhtmltopdf http://www.mysite.com/en/print/book/export/html/25 test.pdf

Which gave me the print page in PDF format. I guess the external limits must be the problem as you say, unless you can think of anything else.

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jcnventura
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The second link is the closest that the module itself does. So it's not a problem of the page, nor of wkhtmltopdf.

I am guessing it's some PHP setting, most likely the memory limit.

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joel_guesclin commented

Thanks for your help - I imagine that this is something I cannot change on a shared hosting service

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jcnventura
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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

No further info in two weeks. Closing the issue.