PDF generator using HTML and CSS
xhtml2pdf
THIS PROJECT WAS INHERITED BY NECESSITY - PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME DIRECTLY FOR HELP BUT USE THE MAILING LIST INSTEAD.
I picked up the code because I needed to patch it, and nobody was around to merge my pull requests in. So now I can merge pull requests in, but I did not write the code.
If you think you can do a better job maintaing this project, feel free to let me know and I'll give you commit rights (or ownership, or whatever).
Thanks!
HTML/CSS to PDF converter based on Python
xhtml2pdf
is a html2pdf converter using the ReportLab Toolkit,
the HTML5lib and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3).
It is completely written in pure Python so it is platform independent.
The main benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills like HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without learning new technologies.
Reportlab Toolkit 2.2+ <http://www.reportlab.org/>
_html5lib 0.11.1+ <http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/>
_PyPDF2 1.19+ (optional) <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyPDF2>
_All requirements are listed in requirements.txt
file.
sudo easy_install pip
For more information about pip
refer to http://www.pip-installer.org/.
virtualenv
for development. This is great to have separate environment foreach project, keeping the dependencies for multiple projects separated::
sudo pip install virtualenv
For more information about virtualenv
refer to http://www.virtualenv.org/
version control::
virtualenv --distribute xhtml2pdfenv --python=python2
source xhtml2pdfenv/bin/activate
Later to deactivate use::
deactivate
requirements.txt
file::pip install -r requirements.txt
nosetests --with-coverage
You should have a log with success status::
Ran 36 tests in 0.322s
OK
Some simple demos of how to integrate xhtml2pdf into a Python program may be found here: test/simple.py
Development for this software happend on github, and the main fork is currently at https://github.com/chrisglass/xhtml2pdf
Contributions are welcome in any format, but using github's pull request system is very highly preferred since it makes review and integration much easier.
Two different test suites are available to assert xhtml2pdf works reliably:
improved on a daily basis (contributions welcome). They should run in the expected way for Python's unittest module, i.e.::
nosetests --with-coverage (or your personal favorite)
test suite lives in testrender/.
Maintainer: Chris Glass [email protected]
Copyright 2010 Dirk Holtwick, holtwick.it
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.