Struct wkhtmltopdf::PdfApplication

pub struct PdfApplication {
    // some fields omitted
}

Structure for initializing the underlying wkhtmltopdf

This is effective a wrapper around PdfGuard that provides a method for instantiating one a builder

Methods

impl PdfApplication

fn new() -> Result<PdfApplication>

Initializes Wkhtmltopdf

Wkhtmltopdf will remain initialized for this process until PdfApplication is dropped. Wkhtmltopdf may only be initialized once per process, and and all PDF generation must happen from the same thread that initialized wkhtmltopdf.

Subsequent attempts to initialize wkhtmltopdf will return Error:IllegalInit.

fn builder(&mut self) -> PdfBuilder

Instantiate a PdfBuilder

This method borrows the self mutably to ensure only that one builder is active at a time which is a basic limitation of wkhtmltopdf. Parallel execution is currently only possible by spawning multiple processes.