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memo = 'Services Rendered'
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## Creating a PDF

We recommed using [python-pdfkit](https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit) to generate PDFs using HTML input. This depends on having [wkhtmltopdf](http://wkhtmltopdf.org/) installed.

You can find an example [here](examples/create_pdf.py)
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import lob
import pdfkit

lob.api_key = "test_0dc8d51e0acffcb1880e0f19c79b2f5b0cc" # Replace this API key with your own.

body = """
<html>
<body>
<div style="text-align: center; color: blue;" />
<img src="https://www.lob.com/assets/images/printing_icon.png" />
<h1>Print with Lob</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""

pdfkit.from_string(body, 'out.pdf', {
'page-height': '6.25in',
'page-width': '4.25in',
'quiet': ''
})

example_object = lob.Object.create(
name='Example Object',
file=open('out.pdf', 'rb'),
setting_id=201,
full_bleed=1
)

print "Check out the created PDF here: " + example_object.url