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wkhtmltopdf: Custom TOC style with --toc-header-text attribute

I'm using the wkhtmltopdf library to generate PDF files with options 

--toc-header-text TEXT --xsl-style-sheet config/wkhtmltopdf_toc.xsl

but the --toc-header-text value is not inserted to the generated table of contents.

Is there a way to insert the value of --toc-header-text variable to the custom TOC stylesheet?

Solution

  • ok, it's not an answer, but it is working workaround

    I create a temp file with toc stylesheet for each generated pdf, replace title text with my dynamic content and pass this file to wkhtmltopdf

    in Ruby it can be something like:

    toc_file = Tempfile.new
toc_content = File.
  read('config/wkhtmltopdf_toc.xsl').
  gsub(':index_title', title)
toc_file.write(toc_content)
toc_file.rewind

    pass the file path to wkhtmltopdf -- toc_file.path

    destroy the file after pdf is generated:

    toc_file.close
toc_file.unlink