Using PDF::WebKit

[halweitz]

Hi folks, I installed and tested wkhtmltopdf from the command line and it works beautifully. Then I installed PDF::WebKit to automate the interaction in a Perl script. However, when I run the script I get this error

: Win32::Process::Create() at C:/Dwimperl/perl/vendor/lib/IPC/Run.pm line 2822

Here is my code

#!perl -w
 use PDF::WebKit;
 use File::Slurp qw( :all ) ;
 
 my $path = 'C:\\temp\\SPM7L413T7971.htm';
 my $html = read_file($path);
 
 PDF::WebKit->configure(sub {
    # default `which wkhtmltopdf`
    $_->wkhtmltopdf('c:\\Program Files (x86)\\wkhtmltopdf\\');

    # default 'pdf-webkit-'
    # $_->meta_tag_prefix('my-prefix-');

    # $_->default_options->{'--orientation'} = 'Portrait';
  });
  
 my $kit = PDF::WebKit->new(\$html, page_size=>'Letter');
 my $pdf = $kit->to_pdf;
 my $file = $kit->to_file('c:\\temp\\test2.pdf');

This is mostly a copy and paste from the cpan documentation but I am not sure about the configure subroutine.

[Anonymous Monk]

See IPC::Run for a debug/warnings/logging option and turn it on

other option, run debugger or edit PDF/WebKit.pm and Dumper out the args to IPC::Run::run( \@args, "<", \$input, ">", \$output );

Then you/we can start to figure out the whats what what

[Anneq]

Are your @INC paths and environment variables at the command line, the same as through another script? Try putting this at the top of your script (before using Win32::Process::Create) and run in both scenarios:

use strict;
use warnings;
$|=1; # Buffering
BEGIN {
    print "#### Environment Variables ####\n";
    foreach (keys(%ENV)) {
        print "$_ = $ENV{$_}\n";
    }
    print "#### \@INC ####\n";
        foreach(@INC) {
        print "$_\n";
    }
    die "#### And there you go.  Your info should be displayed below: 
+####\n";
}

[halweitz]

Ok, here is the answer: The configure subroutine should have a line that looks like this:

$_->wkhtmltopdf('c:\\Program Files (x86)\\wkhtmltopdf\\wkhtmltopdf.exe');

The last wkhtmltopdf.exe was left off. The documentation says path/to/wkhtmltopdf and I didn't include the actual executable name. Oops. Thanks for all the suggestions.