html_to_pdf | simple invoice PDF from HTML using puppeteer | Automation library

That's because the HTML string is being passed to html-pdf-node, the other assets like images and CSS are not. html-pdf-node uses Puppeteer as a headless browser to render the web page before saving it as PDF, when it tries to resolve the assets it sends HTTP requests that just fail.

You have two options to solve this:

• Create a standalone HTML file with inline CSS and images as data URLs
• Open a web server so that the assets can be resolved without being embedded

The simplest option is the second one, here is a minimal example:

If I add this job:

You can use this project as a PHP wrapper for wkhtmltopdf. For doing the same type of Job, I made a separate project available here. For using toPDF, you have to get the HTML code of your page and send it with the POST request for toPDF.

Here's is a glimpse how you can get the HTML (First, bound your html code with tag):

The name org.xhtmlrenderer.util suggests to me that the library you are using (ITextRenderer) expects XHTML. You can get XHTML output from your XSLT transformation by

(a) changing it to use the XHTML output method instead of HTML

(b) changing it to use an XSLT 2.0 processor such as Saxon, because to use the XHTML output method, you need XSLT 2.0.

More specifically, change

I'd suggest rewrite to page.open a file:

The Margin properties are global thus header, footer, body are affected by this. If you want to effect the rendered HTML solely, you can use the following settings:

• HTML Content Destination in PDF. The HTML content destination is given by the X and Y coordinates where to start rendering in first PDF page and by the destination rectangle width and height. All the values are expressed in points. 1 point is 1/72 inches. If you don't set any destination rectangle then by default the converter will start rendering in the top left corner of the first page, will try to use the entire PDF page width for rendering and will auto determine the destination rectangle height such that the entire HTML content is visible. The properties you can set in your code to control the HTML content destination in PDF are X, Y, Width and Height. [...]

• HTML Content Top and Bottom Spacing. Using these options you can set a top and a bottom padding for the HTML content. This can be useful for example when you want to introduce a spacing between the PDF page header or footer and the main content. The properties you can set in your code to control the top and bottom spacing are TopSpacing and BottomSpacing. [...]