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!