Best Pdf Renderer ?

alcoma

Can anyone recommend the best plugin to use for pdf support ?
We have PdfWand and dompdf available according to the config check page, but even small size pdfs seem to hang everything up. In the error_log it seems dompdf is causing many lines that start with:
PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in /public_html/pawtucket/vendor/dompdf/dompdf/src/ ....

I wont list all the lines here as its huge.

I believe our memory settings in Php and elsewhere are plenty.

monica

alcoma The options are either dompdf or wkhtmltopdf for html to pdf rendering. It sounds like you only have dompdf installed.

This isn't your issue though. You need to increase the execution time to avoid timeouts, we have ours set to 300 seconds.
We set this in nginx: fastcgi_read_timeout 300; (not sure what to set for apache, if anything)
and in php.ini: max_execution_time: 300

If this is from uploading a pdf under media representation there are some settings in media_processing.conf that may or may not affect this. There is the QUEUE_WHEN_FILE_LARGER_THAN setting that will put the processing into the background, so this wont get in the way of your page load. If you decrease this value on pdfs then you might see an improvement.

You do need to make sure you have background processing turned on. (Look in setup.php _CA_QUEUE_ENABLED_)

alcoma

Hi Monica, thanks.

I did change the max_execution_time as it was still at 60.
The setting in setup.php for CA_QUEUE_ENABLED was 0 so I set it to 1, but I don't know what to do about the "Be sure to configure the task queue processing script to run (usually via CRON) if you set this option."

I looked at our local copy of media_processing.conf and didn't see any specific settings under QUEUE_WHEN_FILE_LARGER_THAN other than the default "<queue_threshold_in_bytes>"

monica

alcoma and increasing the time and turning on the queue hasn’t changed anything? What version are you on?

alcoma

I was waiting to see how it went, so I will be uploading pdfs to see the difference.
Do I need to do anything else now that I have background processing on ?
The setup file has a note about configuring a task queue processing script ?

monica

If you are using the newest version, I don't think the cron job is needed anymore.

alcoma

Ok great! It seems to be running a lot better now. I can upload quickly and the rendering is a lot faster, with the msg that the item is processing. Huge difference. Thanks!

alcoma

I hate to say it, but things are no longer running as mentioned above. Not sure what reverted but uploading hangs up and the gear keeps spinning saying 100% but never stops. If I check by clicking on 'media on server' it is indeed not uploaded. Could there be any other php or cache settings I should be checking ? Thanks.