"Phatom.js script did not exit" about markdown-pdf HOT 14 CLOSED

Hi @harshbhatt, thanks for the report. Can you tell me what version of markdown-pdf you are running?
You can find this information by going to Settings>Packages and searching for the package.

Also, what operating system and version are you using?

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Hi @travs, I am using version 1.2.4, running on Windows 7 64-bit (SP1).

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@harshbhatt
I believe I have found the source of the problem. Try updating markdown-pdf and let me know if it works!

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@travs,
Just updated it and gave it a shot. Got the same error:

Error: html-pdf: PDF generation timeout. Phantom.js script did not exit.
If the error is a timeout, try running the command again. c:\Users\Harsh\.atom\packages\markdown-pdf\lib\markdown-pdf.js:120
Converted successfully. Output in f:\Google Drive\EdgeBotix\Documents\docs\SenSing\Readme.pdf c:\Users\Harsh\.atom\packages\markdown-pdf\lib\markdown-pdf.js:123

Updated to version 1.2.5

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We have had an issue like this before, and it ended up being resolved with this.

Can you try running some html through html-pdf on the command line, and let me know the results?
The script and html in this comment should be sufficient.

Also, could you try doing npm view html-pdf version on the command line. I just want to make sure you're using 0.3.0, which resulted in a fix for the aforementioned issue.

Thanks for your patience @harshbhatt

Update: also, if the pdf is particularly large, you can fix a longer timeout in the configuration, but that very well may not be the problem.

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I see. I ran the script using the .html file in that post. Same error.

I am using version 0.3.0.

Thanks for all the help!

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Alright, I'll poke the issue in node-html-pdf and see if we can resolve this. 😀

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I'm also having this problem with 1.2.5 on OSX. The file is ~624k

Error: html-pdf: PDF generation timeout. Phantom.js script did not exit. If the error is a timeout, try running the command again.

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@jespow
That seems like a large markdown file; did you try running with a longer timeout? (set this in configs for the package)

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I found this error occurred when I had the file tree selected instead of the actual editor window.

If this is happening to you, make sure you have your editor selected then try the command again.

Will implement a fix for this specific instance of the problem.

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In the case that the markdown is large and phantomjs does not exit after that, adding global.gc() [GARBAGE COLLECTION] to the file and running it as node --expose-gc filename.js takes care of it...

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@LaSanta Interesting... I am also interested to see whether updating phantomJS will do anything. I'm about to do that, so if anyone redownloads please update this issue with your findings

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Ok, since we use a newer version of html-pdf, this is probably fixed. Closing for now.

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Hi I'm using command "html-pdf source.html destination.pdf" on node. It throw error
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/html-pdf/bin/index.js:30
if (err) throw err
^

Error: html-pdf: PDF generation timeout. Phantom.js script did not exit.
at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/html-pdf/lib/pdf.js:121:17)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)
I'm using ubuntu 14.04.1 64bit. Node version 6.2.2

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