How can I view and print PDFs in Python?

Question

Is there a GPL or less restrictive (preferred LGPL) library to view & print PDFs?

I'm using PyQt, maybe there's a possibility to render PDFs using it?

Answer 1

Reportlab - http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/

Answer 2

You can try python-poppler. Poppler is a well known PDF renderer (used by Okular, among other programs) based on xpdf. However, this particular binding is fairly new, and doesn't seem to have a real home page.

Answer 3

You might want to check out this Qt Quarterly post - Poppler: Displaying PDF Files with Qt that explains how to do this in Qt. It's in C++ but I see poppler has Python bindings so it shouldn't be a problem to port the example code in the post to Python.