phantomjs - render HTML to PDF - node.js

Question

I have problems with rendering a HTML file to a PDF file. I pass two arguments to the command line. The first is the HTML input file and the second the PDF output
/var/bin/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /var/www/nodejs/html_to_pdf.js /root/input.html /root/hello.pdf
code
var page = require('webpage').create(),
args = require('system').args,
f = require('fs').open(args[1], 'r');
page.paperSize = {
format : 'A4',
orientation : 'portrait',
margin : {
top : '1cm',
left : '1cm',
bottom : '1cm',
right : '1cm'
}
};
page.content = f.read();
page.setContent(page.content, page);
page.render(args[2]);
phantom.exit();
No errors is returned and no output PDF file?
Here is the input file
http://www.filedropper.com/input_3

Answer 1

I'd suggest rewrite to page.open a file:
var page = require('webpage').create();
var args = require('system').args;
var fs = require('fs');
function getFileUrl(str) {
var pathName = fs.absolute(str).replace(/\\/g, '/');
// Windows drive letter must be prefixed with a slash
if (pathName[0] !== "/") {
pathName = "/" + pathName;
}
return encodeURI("file://" + pathName);
};
page.paperSize = {
format : 'A4',
orientation : 'portrait',
margin : {
top : '1cm',
left : '1cm',
bottom : '1cm',
right : '1cm'
}
};
page.open(getFileUrl(args[1]), function(){
page.render(args[2]);
phantom.exit();
});
getFileUrl is from this answer