Header/Footer HTML Path

When using wkhtmltopdf in command line, I can specify a local HTML file to use as the footer (or header):

wkhtmltopdf --footer-html .\footer.html .\content.html output.pdf

When I pass that reference in the options variable:

options = {"footer-html":"footer.html"}

… PDFKit never works for me. Passing a url (mentioned here) does work:

options = {"footer-html":"http://google.com"}

Two questions:

1. Is it possible to pass a reference to a local HTML file?
2. If so, where does the file need to be relative to? I have tried relative and absolute paths, neither seem to work.

Thanks!

[Jiish]

@arasub I am facing same issue as @gavinr. I want to use a locally stored .html file in my generated pdf. When calling wkhtmltopdf on command line, I can use --footer-html file://path/to/file/file.html, but this does not work with pdfkit. I do not want to access the html via URL, but using file:// locally.

[JazzCore]

Seems working for me, tried with this:

options = {"footer-html":"footer.html"}
pdfkit.from_string('test data', 'out.pdf', options=options, verbose=True)

Path handling is done by wkhtmltopdf but I think that it can handle both relative and absolute path, working directory for it is the same as the directory for python env.

Feel free to reopen, but please provide a reproducible test case