I happy to announce wkpdf version 0.3.0 – a new implementation of wkpdf, on which I have been working over the last months. This version does not provide any major, user-visible features but is mainly a re-implementation in the Ruby programming language. Since Mac OS X 10.5 Apple ships the operating system with a full Ruby [...]

As some of you will probably know, I’m developing a small open-source tool named wkpdf. wkpdf is a command-line application that renders a HTML webpage to PDF using Apple’s WebKit framework. Unfortunately, a change in the WebKit version shipped with Leopard has broken wkpdf on Leopard. Leopard users of wkpdf will be glad to hear, that [...]

I have just released version 0.1.0 of wkpdf, my command line HTML to PDF conversion application for Mac OS X. Since the initial announcement the usability of the application has been improved quite a lot.

There are plenty of browsers available for Mac OS X, but I could not find a command-line tool that allows for downloading a website and storing the rendered website as PDF. In this article I introduce my open-source application wkpdf, which solves this problem.