I am looking for the best accurate tool for PDF in Python that works like Jinja do for HTML.
What are your suggestions?
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Have a look at ReportLab Toolkit.
You can use templates only with the commercial version, though.
jbochi
2010-01-14 14:59:41
You're right and it is a problem since I would like to work from a template in pdf format.
Mamane
2010-01-14 15:12:28
Maybe it's an overkill, but you could use Jinja to generate the text and the toolkit to convert the text to pdf.
jbochi
2010-01-14 15:25:02
@jbochi: Not overkill, IMO. I think this solution works very well.
S.Lott
2010-01-14 16:00:10
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As answered by jbochi, ReportLab is the foundation for almost all Python projects that generate PDF.
But for your needs you might want to check out Pisa / xhtml2pdf. You would generate your HTML with a Jinja template and then use Pisa to convert the HTML to PDF. Pisa is built on top of ReportLab.
Edit: another option I'd forgotten about is wkhtmltopdf
Van Gale
2010-01-14 17:16:59