Topage (page number) issue

[loic911]

Hi,

Problem
See header in result.pdf.
My pdf pages goes from "Page 1 of 5" to "Page 4 of 5". There is only 4 pages.
Sometimes I get 2 extra invisible pages.

What I expect
"Page 1 of 4" to "Page 4 of 4"

Step to reproduce
Extract this zip containing body, header and footer.html: html.zip

Run
wkhtmltopdf --dpi 300 --disable-smart-shrinking --margin-top 5mm --zoom 1 --header-spacing 35 --footer-spacing 20 --header-html header.html --footer-html footer.html body.html result.pdf

Is it a bug or a bad use?

Thanks :-)

[hakimio]

Does it happen if you leave out "dpi" setting?
Which wkhtmltopdf version are you using?

[loic911]

Same issue without dpi
Version wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (with patched qt)

[myself379]

I had the same issue, I did not use the --dpi settings as it screwed up the words, especially if the sentences is in between pages. I use --disable-smart-shrinking because it corrects itself to 14px font-size. Most of the time I get the correct number of [page] and [toPage]. But in quite a numbered occasion the [toPage] has extra 1 page.

For my case, it show 11 / 12, even though the last page is page 11.

I'm using 0.12.4 (wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz for production server).

However, on my local machine 0.12.4 (wkhtmltox-0.12.4_mingw-w64-cross-win64.exe) the [toPage] is rendered correctly as 11 page.

Both are using same source of code base (Laravel), and I'm pushing using git from local machine to local repo and then to production for deployment.

[Tomsgu]

This should be fixed in #3952. Can you try it with 0.12.6 version (not released yet)?

[stmlange]

Is there any public version of 0.12.6 available or do I need to build from source myself?

(Note: since travis already seems to tests the build could it perhaps publish the artifacts too? (see https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/releases/ perhaps just publish it with prerelease: true)

[ashkulz]

@stmlange: you can build 0.12.6 yourself, it's quite easy -- see the packaging repository. You can also try an older dev build -- I'll try to have it updated by this weekend.

[beyondcreed]

Hi,

We are needing this on production FreeBSD system. However the official latest package version is: 0.12.5_5. Any chance you can make a public release so port maintainer can update it. I think they may be waiting for official release before updating the port. Otherwise we will need to look into building from source. Thanks.

https://www.freshports.org/converters/wkhtmltopdf/

[stmlange]

See the discussion in #4578

Perhaps you could try to install the latest pre-release from https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/

[ashkulz]

A release candidate for the 0.12.6 release is now available for download, which should contain changes which possibly address this issue.

Would appreciate downloading the package and reporting back if any issues are encountered during testing. Assuming all goes well, I plan to release 0.12.6 on the 2-year anniversary of the previous release i.e. June 11, 2020.