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xhtml2pdf

HTML/CSS to PDF converter based on Python

About

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.

Requirements

Development environment

Python, virtualenv and dependencies

Install Python 2.6.x or 2.7.x. Installation steps depends on your operating system.

Install Pip, the python package installer:

sudo easy_install pip

For more information about pip refer to http://www.pip-installer.org/.

I will recommend using virtualenv for development. This is great to have separate environment for

each project, keeping the dependencies for multiple projects separated:

sudo pip install virtualenv

For more information about virtualenv refer to http://www.virtualenv.org/

Create virtualenv for the project. This can be inside the project directory, but cannot be under

version control:

virtualenv --distribute xhtml2pdfenv --python=python2

Activate your virtualenv:

source xhtml2pdfenv/bin/activate

Later to deactivate use:

deactivate

Next step will be to install/upgrade dependencies from requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run tests to check your configuration:

nosetests --with-coverage

You should have a log with success status:

Ran 36 tests in 0.322s

OK

Python integration

Some simple demos of how to integrate xhtml2pdf into

a Python program may be found here: test/simple.py

Contributing

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.

Running tests

Two different test suites are available to assert xhtml2pdf works reliably:

Unit tests. The unit testing framework is currently minimal, but is being

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)

Functional tests. Thanks to mawe42's super cool work, a full functional

test suite lives in testrender/.

Contact

Maintainer: Chris Glass

License

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

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.