4 engineers on Hacker News describe using wkhtmltopdf first-hand: 1 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“compared to WK, which took at least 30 seconds for us, and would more often than not just time out.”
regret · production · dmkolobov · 2025-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That's when I learned it best never again use wkhtmltopdf on any Windows system”
regret · production · elmo2you · 2024-01-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“eventually we moved to WKHTMLTOPDF (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/) which is much less hungry with resources but nonetheless PhantomJS played a huge role”
endorse · production · Globz · 2017-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“install the app on the server and call it (like ffpmeg, wkhtml2pdf, an epub to mobi app, etc)”
neutral · production · simion314 · 2018-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?