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Hi,
We are using the export package to generate the report in PDF format, but even after creating the text, the text is converted into an image and generated PDF, due to which the size of the pdf increases a lot.
If we are using graphs it's ok will be saved into an image but the text should be text.
Thank you for your feedback! Would you pls post your export code as well as the exported pdf file for us to check it for you? In our online example the exported pdf file contains text instead of image:
https://www.koolreport.com/examples/reports/export/sakila_rental/
Pls compare it with your export and let us know any difference. Tks,
Our Export package uses Phantomjs headless browser to render pdf or images. Currently, the output format is automatically set based on the file extension. Would you pls connect to your AWS server and test your Phantomjs installation with standard examples, especially the jakarta.pdf one:
Hi,
We continued trying to fix this error.
While we generate PDF files in the Windows system it works fine, Text comes as a Text into PDF, and charts showing as an image.
The same code not working in Linux.
I tried with the old version of phantomJS(1.9.8) working fine, But when I going to update phantomJS 2.1.1 Not working in Linux any solution for this.
If any dependencies there for phantomJS please let us know.
I don't think the problem is in our source code, I think the issue is in the phantomJS latest version.
Pls try this guide to see if it works for your server:
How do you install phantomjs on AWS lambda?
And note this requirement from Phantomjs website: "It however still relies on Fontconfig (the package fontconfig or libfontconfig, depending on the distribution). The system must have GLIBCXX_3.4.9 and GLIBC_2.7."
We installed phantomjs like this.
sudo yum install fontconfig freetype freetype-devel fontconfig-devel libstdc++
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir -p /opt/phantomjs
bzip2 -d phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686.tar.bz2
sudo tar -xvf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686.tar \
--directory /opt/phantomjs/ --strip-components 1
sudo ln -s /opt/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs
Pls run the following command to see phantomjs' dependencies list:
ldd /opt/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs
Then try to install missing libraries. If you could request an AWS support session to help with installing such dependencies it would be nice.
In case you are all out of options there's always our CloudExport solution to fall on. Rgds,
It looks like there's no dependency problem. Which fonts do you use for your PDF view? Pls make sure installing them on /usr/share/fonts and /usr/local/share/fonts/. If you use web fonts, here's a quote "For webfonts (like google fonts) to work properly on the render one needs to install them on the running system. Otherwise QT will render the page as bitmap because the fonts are not available." As a test, you could try to use a locally available fonts of your server.
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