On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 16:06, John Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On the topic of PDF generation, if someone is looking for a internally
>> hosted solution, (albeit more heavy-weight) way to do HTML->PDF,
>> that's faster & supports more html/css than Pisa, I'd recommend taking
>> a look at http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/. It uses headless
>> webkit to render the HTML/CSS and print to PDF. Python bindings
>> available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/wkhtmltopdf/
>
> Very true, I had some decent success with it. DocRaptor
> uses Prince XML which provides a lot of additional features
> (e.g. disable printing, font embedding, bookmarks,
> header and footers, etc.)
>
> -John
>
> [1] http://www.princexml.com/doc/8.0/

I guess DocRaptor subscription based licensing is a nice alternative
to Prince's license fee. :-)

>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tim ^,^
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 14:42, John Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been testing some PDF generation code with
>>> pisa (sits atop ReportLab) and for some of our documents
>>> it was taking over 5 minutes to render. I passed the
>>> same HTML to DocRaptor and had the PDF on my
>>> machine in 8 seconds!
>>>
>>> I then discovered there was no Python wrapper for
>>> their API so I created python-docraptor and have
>>> just pushed a release to pypi[1].
>>>
>>> It's MIT licensed and available on GitHub[2] too.
>>>
>>> Any other PDF generation experiences people
>>> would like to share?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -John
>>>
>>> [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-docraptor/
>>> [2] https://github.com/jkeyes/python-docraptor
>>>

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