--dump-static-html[=<folder name>]

If the --dump-static-html option is specified then the current DOM state is written to an HTML file on each cchip.printPages() call.

The parameter =<folder name> is optional and defaults to dump-static-html. Its value is used as a prefix (to which a time stamp will get appended) for the names of the folders which contain the HTML file(s) with the dumped DOM.

The <folder name> parameter specifies a prefix for the name (not the path!) of the destination folder.

The folder is always created in the same folder as the output PDF file(s).

A time stamp is appended to destination folder name in the following manner:

<folder name>-yyyy-mm-dd—hh-mm-ss

Names of the HTML output files are constructed as follows:

“<html-file-name>-<num-html>-<pdf-file-name>-<num-pdf>.html”

where

• <num-html> is a  counter for each occurrence of the ‘cchip.printPages’ call executed by the input HTML file with the name <html-file-name>. The <num-html> counter is reset to 0 for each input HTML file that is converted - which will only happen if more than one input HTML file has been passed to a pdfChip command line call.
• <num-pdf> is a counter for of ‘cchip.printPages’ call per output PDF, where that output PDF has the name <pdf-file-name>. The <num-pdf> counter is reset to 0 for each output PDF file that gets created - which will only happen if more in any of the input HTML files the function cchip.setOutputPdf() is called to start creating pages in a new PDF output file.

For the following command line

pdfChip.exe --dump-static-html=dump index.html out.pdf

let “index.html” file contain two cchip.printPages() calls. Then during processing by pdfChip on Septermber 23, 2016, at 9:19:30 AM two static HTML files will get created in a  folder called dump-2016-09-23—09-19-30:

• “dump-2016-09-23—09-19-30/index-000-out-000.html”
• “dump-2016-09-23—09-19-30/index-001-out-001.html”