PDF derivatives
Unless you’re using a Docker image, mailbagit is unable to make PDF derivatives out-of-the-box. For this option to be available, you need to have either wkhtmltopdf or Google Chome installed and added to your PATH
.
Learn more about PATH
on Windows.
⚠️ Creating PDF or WARC derivatives may cause privacy or security concerns in some contexts.
wkhtmltopdf
Installing wkhtmltopdf and adding wkhtmltopdf
or wkhtmltopdf.exe
to your PATH
will make the pdf
derivative option available. You can test this by entering wkhtmltopdf -V
or wkhtmltopdf.exe -V
into a command line terminal, which should show options for wkhtmltopdf.
Chrome Headless
Installing Google Chrome and adding chrome
, chrome.exe
or google-chrome
to your PATH
will make the pdf-chrome
derivative option available. If you have Google Chrome installed already, you may just need to add it to your PATH
.
For Windows, Chrome usually installs in one of these locations by default:
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application
You can test if Chrome is correctly added to your PATH
by entering the correlating command into a command line terminal:
chrome https://archives.albany.edu/mailbag
chrome.exe https://archives.albany.edu/mailbag
google-chrome https://archives.albany.edu/mailbag
If any of these commands open a Chrome browser window, you’re all set!