xhtml2pdf is a html2pdf converter using the ReportLab Toolkit, the HTML5lib and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3). It is completely written in pure Python so it is platform independent.
The main benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills like HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without learning new technologies.
Some simple demos of how to integrate xhtml2pdf into a Python program may be found here: test/simple.py
Development for this software happend on github, and the main fork is currently at https://github.com/chrisglass/xhtml2pdf
Contributions are welcome in any format, but using github's pull request system is very highly preferred since it makes review and integration much easier.
Two different test suites are available to assert xhtml2pdf works reliably:
Unit tests. The unit testing framework is currently minimal, but is being improved on a daily basis (contributions welcome). They should run in the expected way for Python's unittest module, i.e.:
nosetests --with-coverage (or your personal favorite)- Functional tests. Thanks to mawe42's super cool work, a full functional test suite lives in rendertests/.
IRC: #xhtml2pdf on freenode Mailing list: xhtml2pdf@googlegroups.com Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/xhtml2pdf
Maintainer: Chris Glass <tribaal@gmail.com>
Copyright 2010 Dirk Holtwick, holtwick.it
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