hi, I am developing a pdf generator app using pdfkit in a streamlit project. pdfkit runs on top of wkhtmltopdf (binary), which I installed on my windows machine, but which now is missing in my heroku environment. I found several posts on how to install wkhtmltopdf on heroku, but none seem to work. T…

[image] godot63: but none seem to work Please be more specific - what does not work?

the error is: OSError: No wkhtmltopdf executable found: "b''" If this file exists please check that this process can read it. Otherwise please install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing-wkhtmltopdf and further down I get a similar message : No wkhtmltopdf execu…

Hello @godot63 please try to read this article: wkhtmltopdf on Heroku: evaluating different installation options This article explores different ways of installing wkhtmltopdf on Heroku, analyzes their drawbacks, and identifies the most reliable one. The article…

Hi @namespace1100 thanks for this reference. I had found and followed very similar instructions and had failed. I did not know whether the instructions were out of date or if it was just me. Now I know: it was just me. Which of the proposed solutions in the article did work for you? Could you possi…

Hello @godot63 , I’ve followed the method 2 (Method 2: buildpack) in the article. Did you change the heroku-stack from heroku-20 to heroku-18? Did you add the following buildpacks? https://buildpack-registry.s3.amazonaws.com/buildpacks/heroku-community/apt.tgz https://github.com/dscout/wkhtmltop…

hi @namespace1100 it works, thank you so much for your precious help. The app is here in case you are interested, in the end this should become a report generator for water level reports of groundwater monitroing wells across Ontario, Canada. Now that it works on the happy path, I will continue d…

That’s great @godot63 , Happy coding :grin:!

Deploying an app using using wkhtmltopdf on herokou

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That’s great @godot63 , Happy coding !

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