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html-pdf npm library gives weird output on Linux Server?

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I am generating PDF from HTML and that worked fine on my local machine, which has Windows as OS. But now I deploy my application on a Linux server where it gives weird output:

const htmlPdf = require('html-pdf')
try{
    let html = `<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /></head><body><div>Managed APs</div><br /><table><th>AP Serial</th><th>AP Name</th><th>AP Model</th><th>Mac Address</th><th>IP</th><th>Connect Status</th><th>Cluster</th><tr><td>1010212112</td><td >AP_Test</td><td>RJ147</td><td>1.23.2.2</td><td>1.23.12.4</td><td>Connected</td><td>Dummy Cluster</td></tr></table></body></html>`

    htmlPdf.create(html).toBuffer(function(err, buffer){
        if(err){
            return res.json({
                success: false,
                message: dbErrorMessage
            });
        } else{
            const pdfData = buffer.toString('base64')
            return res.json({
                success: true,
                data: pdfData
            });
      }
    });
}
catch(e){
    return res.json({
        success: false,
        message: e 
    });
}

I have also posted query on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53866694/html-pdf-npm-library-gives-weird-output-on-linux-server

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Created 5 years ago
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Sairam-Chcommented, Feb 6, 2019

@ganeshpaiya I was faced the same issue, If you update the phantomjs in your server then you may not get this issue.along with that in your server update the below packages too. It was works fine to me now. sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 sudo apt-get install libfontconfig

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RobertDS07commented, Jul 26, 2021

And don’t forgot libconfig