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Description:
Most people know how to write a page with HTML and CSS. Why not using these skills to dynamically generate PDF documents using it? The open source project "pisa" http://www.htmltopdf.org enables you to to this quite simple in a pythonic way.
Source: Text Source
import cStringIO
import ho.pisa as pisa
import os
pisa.showLogging()
def HTML2PDF(data, filename, open=False):
"""
Simple test showing how to create a PDF file from
PML Source String. Also shows errors and tries to start
the resulting PDF
"""
pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(
cStringIO.StringIO(data),
file(filename, "wb"))
if open and (not pdf.err):
os.startfile(str(filename))
return not pdf.err
if __name__=="__main__":
HTMLTEST = """
<html><body>
<p>Hello <strong style="color: #f00;">World</strong>
<hr>
<table border="1" style="background: #eee; padding: 0.5em;">
<tr>
<td>Amount</td>
<td>Description</td>
<td>Total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Good weather</td>
<td>0 EUR</td>
</tr>
<tr style="font-weight: bold">
<td colspan="2" align="right">Sum</td>
<td>0 EUR</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body></html>
"""
HTML2PDF(HTMLTEST, "test.pdf", open=True)
Discussion:
For the conversion these third party modules are used: HTML5lib, Reportlab and TG CSS Parser. All components are written in pure Python to ensure platform independency. More Informations on http://www.htmltopdf.org
This approach is very useful for web applications. Examples for integration with WSGI, Django, Turbogears, CherryPy and simple CGI are provided.
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