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Daniel Reis
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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Installing wkhtmltopdf

Odoo reports are just HTML pages that are then converted into PDF files. For this conversion, the wkhtmltopdf command-line tool is used. Its name stands for Webkit HTML to PDF.

For reports to be generated correctly, the recommended version of the wkhtmltopdf utility needs to be installed. Some versions of the wkhtmltopdf library are known to have issues, such as not printing page headers and footers, so we need to be picky about the version we use.

Since Odoo 10, version 0.12.5 is the officially recommended one. The most up-to-date Odoo information about wkhtmltopdf can be found at https://github.com/odoo/odoo/wiki/Wkhtmltopdf.

The packaged version provided by Debian or Ubuntu may not be appropriate. So, the recommendation is to directly download and install the correct package. The download links can be found at https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/tag/0.12.5.

To install the correct version of wkhtmltopdf, follow these steps:

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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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