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wkhtmltopdf (and paper-muncher)

The engine that renders Odoo's QWeb reports to PDF. Use 0.12.6 with patched Qt; Odoo 20 also supports paper-muncher 0.6+.

Official site: github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases
Licence: Free (LGPL-3)

With Odoo

• Missing headers/footers usually mean an unpatched build.
• Odoo logs wkhtmltopdf errors with the exit code.

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