[4.0.1] Won't finish generating a pdf / png

[mrohnstock]

(continued issue from #231 (comment))

I'm running Arch Linux with the following tools:

• node 11.9.0
• npm 6.7.0

I do use KDE Plasma (5.14.5) as my graphical workspaces environment.

GTK2 (2.24.32) and 3 (3.24.4) (including all libs) are installed, electron itself starts without an issue, but for example the following command:

electron-pdf https://fraserxu.me ~/Desktop/fraserxu.pdf --browserConfig '{"show":true}'

displays only the following:

and won't display the actual page and won't close itself, as it does with electron-pdf 1.2.5.

To test, if electron itself would display the page, I've created the following main.js file:

const electron = require('electron');

// Module to control application life.
const {app} = electron;
// Module to create native browser window.
const {BrowserWindow} = electron;

// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let win;

function createWindow() {
  // Create the browser window.
  win = new BrowserWindow();

  // and load the index.html of the app.
  win.loadURL('https://fraserxu.me');

  // Emitted when the window is closed.
  win.on('closed', () => {
    // Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
    // in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
    // when you should delete the corresponding element.
    win = null;
  });
}

// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.on('ready', createWindow);

// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
  // On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
  // to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
  if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
    app.quit();
  }
});

app.on('activate', () => {
  // On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
  // dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
  if (win === null) {
    createWindow();
  }
});

// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.

and package.json:

{
  "main"    : "main.js"
}

and executed:

/usr/lib/node_modules/electron-pdf/node_modules/electron/dist/electron .

Which displays the page.

You told something about You can turn up the log levels as well, see the README., I've digged into the README.md of electron-pdf but can't find something.

Thanks for your help :D!

[mrohnstock]

alright... found a way to get this working:

electron-pdf https://fraserxu.me ~/Desktop/fraserxu.pdf --browserConfig '{ "webPreferences": { "sandbox" : true } }'

[bruceCzK]

Same here. Running electron-pdf v4.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Node 10.15.

[mikkorantalainen]

With electron-pdf v4.0.10 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with node v12.20.0

1. I get total hang when given URL or file as first parameter and a PDF filename as the second.
2. I can avoid the hang if I add --browserConfig '{ "webPreferences": { "sandbox" : true } }' but the output is an empty A4 page.

Does electron-pdf work for anybody nowadays?