cli

athenapdf

The CLI component of athenapdf.

A simple CLI tool to convert HTML to PDF from a local file or a URL to a web page using Electron (Chromium).

It can be used anywhere with Docker installed, even in a headless environment (i.e. no display server).

Features

• Alternative / drop-in replacement for wkhtmltopdf
• Uses the latest, stable release of Chromium, and its Blink web rendering engine:
  • Supports the latest HTML5, and CSS3
  • Supports JavaScript, and AJAX
  • Supports internal linking / page anchors within a PDF
  • More: https://www.chromestatus.com/features
• Supports local HTML files, and remote URLs
• Supports writing to standard output: you can take advantage of UNIX piping / redirects
• Supports rendering in:
  • Landscape or portrait
  • A3, A4, A5, Legal, Letter, and Tabloid page size
• Adjustable PDF generation delay
• Adjustable, built-in timeout mechanism
• Adjustable cache control
• Adjustable browser zoom settings
• Adjustable margin sizes
• Automatically falls back to screen stylesheets if no print stylesheet is defined
• Aggressive mode: declutter web pages, and improves readability
• Bypass paywalls for most digital publications with a single -B flag (experimental feature)
• Dockerized:
  • Easy to set up, distribute, and run
  • Runs in headless mode (the display server is handled for you)
  • Out-of-the-box support for a broad range of foreign characters
• Actively maintained, and production tested

Quick Start

See docs/quick-start.md.

Development

See docs/development.md.

Building

See docs/building.md.