ERROR: phantomjs binary does not exist

[williewould]

Trying to generate a pdf, and keep getting this error:
ERROR: phantomjs binary does not exist: C:\Users\user_name\.vscode\extensions\yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4\node_modules\phantomjs-pre
I have tried running the command several times, but still keep getting this error.

I can't actually open the .pdf it generates. Please excuse me if its a trivial problem - I am new to using VSC. I also installed Auto-open Markdown packages.

Thanks in advance.

[yzane]

With the Internet connected, please open the markdown file with vscode.
Then phantomjs binary will be installed.

[0tarof]

I found same issue in my environment.

I got following error:

ERROR: phantomjs binary does not exist: /Users/USERNAME/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs

but phantomjs pre-built binary is installed in:

/Users/USERNAME/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/bin/phantomjs

Please check again.

[yzane]

Thank you for your report.

The following file is not a binary file.

/Users/USERNAME/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/bin/phantomjs

Is there the following phantomjs binary file?

• Windows
  • C:\Users\USERNAME\.vscode\extensions\yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4\node_modules\phantomjs-prebuilt\lib\phantom\bin\phantomjs.exe
• Linux
  • ~/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs

[applee]

If phantomjs is found in lib or on PATH, it will not be re-copied to dir ~/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin. So I think you should just use ~/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/bin/phantomjs instead here, it will always work well.

[adison]

With the Internet connected, please open the markdown file with vscode.
Then phantomjs binary will be installed.

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This solution doesn't work for me.

[amiuhle]

Having the same problem, got it working by symlinking the phantomjs binary:

mkdir -p ~/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin
ln -s ~/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/bin/phantomjs  ~/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/

[eminsenay]

I also had the same problem. Downloading the latest phantomjs and pasting the exe under C:\Users\USERNAME\.vscode\extensions\yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4\node_modules\phantomjs-prebuilt\lib\phantom\bin\ workaround solved it.

[nuomi1]

For macOS 10.12 (brew was installed):

brew install phantomjs
cd ~/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.4/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
mkdir lib/phantom/bin
ln -s /usr/local/bin/phantomjs lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs

[yzane]

Thanks for report.
@applee I will check it.

[yzane]

Released 0.1.5 with this fix.
Please update!

[eminsenay]

Still getting the same error after uninstall/install:
ERROR: phantomjs binary does not exist: C:\Users[usernamehere].vscode\extensions\yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.5\node_modules\phantomjs-prebuilt\lib\phantom\bin\phantomjs.exe

[yzane]

@eminsenay Thanks for info.
Markdown-pdf will automatically download phantomjs.
In version 0.1.4, if phantomjs were found in PATH, an error occurred.
This problem was fixed in version 0.1.5.
However, it seems that an error has occurred due to other causes.

With this fix, if phantomjs is found in PATH it will be used.
Therefore, if an error occurs, please download and install phantomjs from here and set it to PATH.

[Amroll]

I got a same error after install when I used "Convert Markdown to PDF". but when I install Node.js and reload this ext. This error is fixed.
So, I think here maybe has some problem.

Another method to resolve this error(just windows):

1. Download phantomjs from here
2. Extract (unzip) the content and copy the bin folder to

C:\Users[usernamehere].vscode\extensions\yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.5\node_modules\phantomjs-prebuilt\lib\phantom

3. Restart vscode.

[deadlydog]

Same problem for me as well

ERROR: phantomjs binary does not exist: C:\Users\USERNAME\.vscode\extensions\yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.6\node_modules\phantomjs-prebuilt\lib\phantom\bin\phantomjs.exe

What's weird is the file does exist at that location though. After doing the steps above of manually downloading and overwriting that file, then it works as expected.

[andyrdavidson]

Same problem for me as well. @Amroll solution works for me. Like @deadlydog the file already existed at the appropriate location.

[yzane]

Since the size limit of the extensions increased from 20 MB to 100 MB, we included phantomjs.exe for Windows in Markdown-PDF 0.1.7.
Increase Extension Size Limit

[marsdotpset]

I got a same error after install when I used "Convert Markdown to PDF".

Error message is
ERROR: phantomjs binary does not exist: /Users/username/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.7/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom\bin\phantomjs.exe
The last two path separator are '\', not '/'.

I can found this exe file under the right path, but the default permissions of ~/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.7/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs.exe
is -rw-r--r--, maybe it should be -rwxr-xr-x?

OS: OS X EI Caption
Markdown PDF: 0.1.7

[peiyaoli]

I met the same issue as @marsdotpset ,
OS: ubuntu16.04
Markdown PDF:0.1.7

[malk271]

Same issue on MacOSX. The pre-build phantomjs.exe executable is a Windows binary. Not usable by OSX or Linux.

[malk271]

Simplest workaround for OSX users, at least, is to install Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/), then go into the extensions directory and rebuild phantomjs:

cd $HOME/.vscode/extensions/yzane.markdown-pdf-0.1.7/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
/usr/local/bin/node install.js

[Sway007]

For Mac

brew install phantomjs

For Ubuntu

apt install phantomjs

then restart vscode, problem solved

[angelok1]

@malk271's rebuilding phantomjs suggestion worked for me on high sierra.

[yzane]

Markdown PDF ver1.0.0 replaced PDF converter with puppeteer instead of node-html-pdf.
Therefore PhantomJS is no longer used.