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Re: PDF generator decision

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On Tue, 14 May 2013 08:05:53 -0700, Christian Jurk wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> This questions may be asked several times already, but the development
> of relevant software continues day-for-day. For some time now I've been
> using xhtml2pdf [1] to generate PDF documents from HTML templates (which
> are rendered through my Django-based web application. This have been
> working for some time now but I'm constantly adding new templates and
> they are not looking like I want it (sometimes bold text is bold,
> sometimes not, layout issues, etc). I'd like to use something else than
> xhtml2pdf.
> 
> So far I'd like to ask which is the (probably) best way to create PDFs
> in Python (3)? It is important for me that I am able to specify not only
> background graphics, paragaphs, tables and so on but also to specify
> page headers/footers. The reason is that I have a bunch of documents to
> be generated (including Invoice templates, Quotes - stuff like that).
> 
> Any advice is welcome. Thanks.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/chrisglass/xhtml2pdf

Reportlab works well in Python 2.x.  Their _next_ version is supposed to 
work with Python3... {yes, not much help there}

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PDF generator decision Christian Jurk <commx@commx.ws> - 2013-05-14 08:05 -0700
  Re: PDF generator decision Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2013-05-14 15:21 +0000
  Re: PDF generator decision jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 10:36 -0700
  Re: PDF generator decision dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2013-05-15 08:22 +0200
  RE: PDF generator decision Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-15 09:48 +0300

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