diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a195fd0..f6bba87 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ For asset URLs in CSS files we recommend creating a separate CSS file overriding
 
 ## To Do
 
-- Remove dependencies for ActiveSupport & PDFKit
+- Remove PDFKit Dependency
 - Write tests (rspec)
 - Package default PDF layout file in Gem
 - Support layouts in partials
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diff --git a/jekyll-pdf.gemspec b/jekyll-pdf.gemspec
index f48fba2..dc87113 100644
--- a/jekyll-pdf.gemspec
+++ b/jekyll-pdf.gemspec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
-  spec.version = "0.1.0"
+  spec.version = "0.1.2"
   spec.homepage = "http://github.com/abemedia/jekyll-pdf/"
   spec.authors = ["Adam Bouqdib"]
   spec.email = ["adam@abemedia.co.uk"]
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_runtime_dependency("wkhtmltopdf-installer", "~> 0.12")
   spec.add_runtime_dependency("pdfkit", "~> 0.8")
   spec.add_runtime_dependency("digest", "~> 0")
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency("activesupport", "~> 4.2")
   spec.add_runtime_dependency("jekyll", ">= 2.0", "~> 3.1")
 
   spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", "~> 1.6"
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/pdf/document.rb b/lib/jekyll/pdf/document.rb
index ab85949..78f8d1c 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/pdf/document.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/pdf/document.rb
@@ -1,99 +1,99 @@
 require 'pdfkit'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/hash/deep_merge'
-    
+
 module Jekyll
   module PDF
     class Document < Jekyll::Page
       include Helper
-      
+
       def initialize(site, base, page)
         @site = site
         @base = base
         @dir = File.dirname(page.url)
         @name = File.basename(page.url, File.extname(page.url)) + ".pdf"
-        @settings = site.config['pdf'] || {}
+        @settings = site.config['pdf'].clone || {}
         @partials = ['cover','header_html','footer_html']
-      
+
         self.process(@name)
         self.data = page.data.clone
         self.content = page.content.clone
-        
+
         # Set layout to the PDF layout
         self.data['layout'] = layout
-        
+
         # Get PDF settings from the layouts
-        @settings = (site.config['pdf'] || {}).deep_merge(self.getConfig(self.data))
-        
+        Jekyll::Utils.deep_merge_hashes!(@settings, self.getConfig(self.data))
+
         PDFKit.configure do |config|
           config.verbose = site.config['verbose']
         end
-        
+
         # Set pdf_url variable in the source page (for linking to the PDF version)
         page.data['pdf_url'] = self.url
-        
+
         # Set html_url variable in the source page (for linking to the HTML version)
         self.data['html_url'] = page.url
-        
+
         # create the partial objects
         @partials.each do |partial|
           @settings[partial] = Jekyll::PDF::Partial.new(self, @settings[partial]) if @settings[partial] != nil
         end
       end
-      
+
       # Recursively merge settings from the page, layout, site config & jekyll-pdf defaults
       # todo: use jekyll's merge function
       def getConfig(data)
         settings = data['pdf'].is_a?(Hash) ? data['pdf'] : {}
         layout = @site.layouts[data['layout']].data.clone if data['layout'] != nil
-        
+
         # No parent layout found - return settings hash
         return settings if layout == nil
-        
+
         # Merge settings with parent layout settings
-        layout['pdf'] = (layout['pdf'] || {}).deep_merge(settings)
-        
+        layout['pdf'] ||= {}
+        Jekyll::Utils.deep_merge_hashes!(layout['pdf'], settings)
+
         return self.getConfig(layout)
       end
-      
+
       def write(dest_prefix, dest_suffix = nil)
         self.render(@site.layouts, @site.site_payload) if self.output == nil
-        
+
         path = File.join(dest_prefix, CGI.unescape(self.url))
         dest = File.dirname(path)
-        
+
         # Create directory
         FileUtils.mkdir_p(dest) unless File.exist?(dest)
-        
+
         # write partials
         @partials.each do |partial|
           @settings[partial].write if @settings[partial] != nil
         end
-        
+
         # Debugging - create html version of PDF
         File.open("#{path}.html", 'w') {|f| f.write(self.output) } if @settings["debug"]
         @settings.delete("debug")
-        
+
         # Build PDF file
         fix_relative_paths
         kit = PDFKit.new(self.output, @settings)
         file = kit.to_file(path)
-        
+
         #self.output = kit.to_pdf
       end
-      
+
       def layout()
         # Set page layout to the PDF layout
         layout = self.data['pdf_layout'] || @settings['layout']
-        
+
         # Check if a PDF version exists for the current layout (e.g. layout_pdf)
         if layout == nil && self.data['layout'] != nil && File.exist?("_layouts/" + self.data['layout'] + "_pdf.html")
-          layout = self.data['layout'] + "_pdf" 
+          layout = self.data['layout'] + "_pdf"
         end
-        
+
         layout || 'pdf'
       end
-      
+
     end
-  
+
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/pdf/generator.rb b/lib/jekyll/pdf/generator.rb
index 69fe6c8..dafaa25 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/pdf/generator.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/pdf/generator.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module Jekyll
     class Generator < Jekyll::Generator
       safe true
       priority :lowest
-  
+
       def generate(site)
         # Loop through pages & documents and build PDFs
         [site.pages, site.documents].each do |items|
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ module Jekyll
           end
         end
       end
-      
+
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/pdf/helper.rb b/lib/jekyll/pdf/helper.rb
index f040746..cf12808 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/pdf/helper.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/pdf/helper.rb
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ module Jekyll
   module PDF
     module Helper
       def fix_relative_paths
-        prefix = "file://#{site.dest}/"
-        output = output.gsub(/(href|src)=(['"])\/([^\/"']([^\"']*|[^"']*))?['"]/, "\\1=\\2#{prefix}\\3\\2")
+        output.gsub!(/(href|src)=(['"])\/([^\/"']([^\"']*|[^"']*))?['"]/, "\\1=\\2file://#{site.dest}/\\3\\2") if output != nil
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/pdf/hooks.rb b/lib/jekyll/pdf/hooks.rb
index db10670..a9ca945 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/pdf/hooks.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/pdf/hooks.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Jekyll::Hooks.register :site, :post_write do |jekyll, payload|
   if jekyll.data[:jekyll_pdf_partials]
     jekyll.data[:jekyll_pdf_partials].each do |partial|
-      partial.clean
+      File.delete(partial) if File.exist?(partial)
     end
     jekyll.data.delete(:jekyll_pdf_partials)
   end
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/pdf/partial.rb b/lib/jekyll/pdf/partial.rb
index e79e197..4f12472 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/pdf/partial.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/pdf/partial.rb
@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@ module Jekyll
   module PDF
     class Partial
       extend Forwardable
-  
+
       attr_accessor :doc
       attr_accessor :partial
       attr_accessor :write
       attr_accessor :content, :ext
       attr_writer   :output
-  
+
       def_delegators :@doc, :site, :name, :ext, :relative_path, :extname,
                             :render_with_liquid?, :collection, :related_posts
-  
+
       # Initialize this Partial instance.
       #
       # doc - The Document.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ module Jekyll
         self.partial = partial
         self.content = build_partial(partial)
       end
-  
+
       # Fetch YAML front-matter data from related doc, without layout key
       #
       # Returns Hash of doc data
@@ -34,101 +34,97 @@ module Jekyll
         @data.delete("layout")
         @data
       end
-  
+
       def trigger_hooks(*)
       end
-      
+
       def path
         File.join(doc.path, partial)
       end
-      
-      # Returns the file name for the temporary file
-      def filename
+
+      def id
         File.basename(path, File.extname(path)) + "-" + Digest::MD5.hexdigest(to_s) + File.extname(path)
       end
-      
+
       # Returns the cache directory
       def dir
         @dir ||= cache_dir
       end
-  
+
       def to_s
         output || content
       end
-  
+
       def to_liquid
         doc.data[partial] = nil
         @to_liquid ||= doc.to_liquid
         doc.data[partial] = self
         @to_liquid
       end
-  
+
       # Returns the shorthand String identifier of this doc.
       def inspect
         "<Partial: #{self.id}>"
       end
-  
+
       def output
         @output ||= Renderer.new(doc.site, self, site.site_payload).run
       end
-      
+
       # generate temp file & set output to it's path
       def write
-        tempfile = File.join(dir, filename)
+        tempfile = File.absolute_path(File.join(dir, id))
         unless File.exist?(tempfile)
           FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(tempfile)) unless File.exist?(File.dirname(tempfile))
           File.open(tempfile, 'w') {|f| f.write(to_s) }
         end
-        site.data[:jekyll_pdf_partials] ||= []
-        site.data[:jekyll_pdf_partials] << self
         @output = tempfile
+
+        # store path for cleanup
+        site.data[:jekyll_pdf_partials] ||= []
+        site.data[:jekyll_pdf_partials] << "#{self}"
       end
-      
-      # delete temp file
-      def clean
-        File.delete(@output)
-      end
-  
+
       def place_in_layout?
         false
       end
-  
+
       protected
-      
+
       def cache_dir
         return site.config["pdf"]["cache"] if site.config["pdf"] != nil && site.config["pdf"].has_key?('cache')
-        
+
         # Use jekyll-assets cache directory if it exists
         cache_dir = site.config["assets"]["cache"] || '.asset-cache' if site.config["assets"] != nil
-        
+
         File.join(cache_dir || Dir.tmpdir(), 'pdf')
       end
-  
+
       # Internal: Generate partial html
       #
       # Partials are rendered same time as content is rendered.
       #
       # Returns partial html String
       def build_partial(path)
-        
+
         # vars to insert into partial
         vars = ['frompage','topage','page','webpage','section','subsection','subsubsection']
         doc.data["pdf"] = {}
         vars.each { |var| doc.data["pdf"][var] = "<span class='__#{var}'></span>" }
-        
+
         # JavaScript to replace var placeholders with content
         script = "<script>!function(){var t={},n=document.location.search.substring(1).split('&');for(var e in n){var o=n[e].split('=',2);t[o[0]]=decodeURIComponent(o[1])}var n=#{vars};for(var e in n)for(var r=document.getElementsByClassName('__'+n[e]),a=0;a<r.length;++a)r[a].textContent=t[n[e]]}();</script>\n"
-        
+
         # Parse & render
         content = File.read(File.join("_includes", path))
-        
+
         # Add replacer script to body
         if content =~ /<\/body>/i
           content[/(<\/body>)/i] = script + content[/(<\/body>)/i]
         else
           Jekyll.logger.warn  <<-eos
   Couldn't find <body> in #{path}. Make sure your partial is a properly formatted HTML document (including DOCTYPE) e.g.
-  
+
   <!DOCTYPE html>
   <html>
   <head>
@@ -149,9 +145,9 @@ module Jekyll
   </html>
   }
         end
-        
+
         content
-        
+
       end
     end
   end