fylr-plugin-server-pdf

Warning

Deprecated. PDF Creator renders PDFs itself since v1.1.0 and no longer uses this plugin, which was its only consumer in the product. Nothing in fylr calls this plugin any more.

It is not removed by the 6.35 disk-to-url migration — that only touches plugins fylr shipped — so if you installed it for PDF Creator you can uninstall it. Keep it only if something of your own posts to its html2pdf endpoint.

No new features are planned. The renderer lives on inside PDF Creator.

Provides fylr with a general HTML-to-PDF service: it exposes an html2pdf extension endpoint (plugin/extension/server-pdf/html2pdf) that renders HTML posted to it into a PDF, using a headless Chrome/Chromium on the exec server.

Not needed for PDF Creator. The current PDF Creator ships its own renderer and does not use this plugin. Install server-pdf when you want the HTML-to-PDF endpoint for your own integration; the easydb-era PDF Creator used to depend on it.

• Check that you exec server is prepared to run plugin binaries, like so:

    execserver+:
      ...
      env+:
        # The environment variable has to point to the Chrome binary. Without configuration "chromium"
        # is expected in the PATH.
        # Chrome / chromium is started using the parameters:
        #  --headless --disable-gpu --no-sandbox --remote-debugging-port=0
        # These parameters are hardcoded and cannot be changed at this point.
        - SERVER_PDF_CHROME=/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome

• By default the server-pdf plugin expect the binary chromium in the exec server. If you prefer to use "Chrome" or want to provide an absolute path to the binary, use environment.

• Install this Plugin into fylr (URL, ZIP or disk mode)

• The easydb-pdf-creator-plugin will auto recognize this plugin and call the fylr server pdf creator automatically.