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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

#45297 — PDF generator decision

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

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#45300

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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#45304

On 14 mai, 17:05, Christian Jurk <co...@commx.ws> 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

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1) Use Python to collect your data (db, pictures, texts, ...)
and/or to create the material (text, graphics, ...) that will
be the contents (source) of your your pdf's.
2) Put this source in .tex file (a plain text file).
3) Let it compile with a TeX engine.

- I can not figure out something more versatile and basically
simple (writing a text file).
- Do not forget you are the only one who knows the content
and the layout of your document(s).

jmf

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#45325

Christian Jurk <commx@commx.ws> writes:

> ...
> 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).

High quality layouts, especially those containing (potentially complex
tables), are very difficult to generate automatically.

I do not suppose that you will find a generic solution - one applicable
to a wide range of document classes and garanteeing high quality
layout for almost all of its document instances.

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#45327

Christian, have you tried pod[1]? You can use create templates in OpenDocument format and then create the PDFs just passing the arguments, like:

args = {'name':'John', 'email':'john@example.com'}
renderer = Renderer('template.odt', args, 'result.odt')renderer.run()



[1] http://appyframework.org/pod.html

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> To: python-list@python.org
> From: dieter@handshake.de
> Subject: Re: PDF generator decision
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 08:22:25 +0200
>
> Christian Jurk <commx@commx.ws> writes:
>
>> ...
>> 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).
>
> High quality layouts, especially those containing (potentially complex
> tables), are very difficult to generate automatically.
>
> I do not suppose that you will find a generic solution - one applicable
> to a wide range of document classes and garanteeing high quality
> layout for almost all of its document instances.
>
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