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 >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en.
