Squared characters issue on wkhtmltopdf

encoding fonts centos pdf-generation wkhtmltopdf

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Solution 1

When I had the black squares issue I was able to solve it without installing X11 by installing the urw-fonts package.

Solution 2

I was able to solve this problem using the following resource:

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/wiki/static

In short, you probably don't need to install the entire x11 library and all its dependencies. Just installing urw-fonts should do the trick. The above resource even mentions CentOS as having this problem.

Run this command on your server:

sudo yum install urw-fonts libXext openssl-devel

Solution 3

I am using CentOS 7 with wkhtmltox 12.4 and found that none of the suggestions thus far fixed my block-text in output PDFs.

For me, the final solution was to install dejavu-sans-fonts.

Solution 4

In case someone faces the same issue on Alpine. This solved the problem for me:

apk --update add ttf-dejavu

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Tim Tuckle

Updated on June 16, 2022

Comments

Tim Tuckle about 2 years

I've installed wkhtmltopdf on Centos 5.5. (Since there was library issues, it's been 4 days). It's partly working now. I said partly because, all pdfs which was created by wkhtmltopdf include squares instead of text?

What can I do? I've searched google, but I couldn't find anything.

Appreciate your help.
Tim Tuckle over 13 years

Yes, I tested as you have told the test.html. Even that one is displayed in squares. But all are filled with black. I tested wkhtmltopdf-i386 and wkhtmltopdf-amd64. I am afraid, my problem is so complicated. What do you think? :(
Elitmiar over 12 years

The solution from James F solved my problem. Had exact the same problem, when I execute the wkhtmltophp on the command line all fonts where 100%. But not if I try and execute it from PHP using the command. I run Centos 6 and installed URL fonts yum install urw-fonts and then it worked ;-) Thank you James
Marcin over 11 years

Awesome solution James. Tim, please accept it as an answer as it clearly works.
Krishna Prasad Varma about 11 years

Excellent Answer. @Tim Tuckle: please accept this as the answer.
cassi.lup over 10 years

Thank you! Worked like a charm in CentOS 6.5. @Tim Tuckle, please do accept the answer.
kodmasin about 9 years

Tnx! Solved my problem on CentOS 7.1
n0denine almost 9 years

Thanks! Solved my issue. sudo yum install urw-fonts
a coder over 8 years

Solved my problem with wkhtmltopdf-amd running on RHEL7. Thanks!
a coder over 8 years

Basically the same answer as James F. After downloaded the static binary I had to install the following deps to get it working on RHEL7: yum install libXrender libXext fontconfig urw-fonts
a coder over 8 years

This is not true. If running EL7 you do not need the entire X11 system. Grab wkhtmltopdf-amd , then yum install libXrender libXext fontconfig urw-fonts
tmarois almost 8 years

Awesome job! That was the solution on my end.
Ross The Boss over 7 years

Is there a ubuntu/debian equivalent to urw-fonts? -- this problem exists on ubuntu as well.
HartleySan over 6 years

This is THE answer!
ɹɐqʞɐ zoɹǝɟ over 6 years

thanks mate , this one worked me after try so many damn number of suggestions/fixes/workarounds all over the internet so far. im on centos 7 and using wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.1 (with patched qt)
sinhix almost 3 years

Thanks ! I could not get the segmentation fault error !