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Release Notes can be found here: Release Notes <https://xhtml2pdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes.html>__
As with all open-source software, its use in production depends on many factors, so be aware that you may find issues in some cases.
Big thanks to everyone who has worked on this project so far and to those who help maintain it.
xhtml2pdf is a HTML to PDF converter using Python, the ReportLab Toolkit, html5lib and pypdf. It supports HTML5 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 is that a user with web skills like HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without learning new technologies.
Please consider support this project using Patreon <https://www.patreon.com/xhtml2pdf>__ or Bitcoins: bc1qmr0skzwx5scyvh2ql28f7gfh6l65ua250qv227
The documentation of xhtml2pdf is available at Read the Docs <http://xhtml2pdf.readthedocs.io>__.
And we could use your help improving it! A good place to start is doc/source/usage.rst.
This is a typical Python library and can be installed using pip::
pip install xhtml2pdf
Only Python 3.7+ is tested and guaranteed to work.
All additional requirements are listed in the requirements.txt file and are installed automatically using the pip install xhtml2pdf method.
You can try WeasyPrint <http://weasyprint.org>__. The codebase is pretty, it has different features and it does a lot of what xhtml2pdf does.
This project is heavily dependent on getting its test coverage up! Furthermore, parts of the codebase could do well with cleanups and refactoring.
If you benefit from xhtml2pdf, perhaps look at the test coverage <https://coveralls.io/github/xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf>__ and identify parts that are yet untouched.
#. If you don't have it, install pip, the python package installer::
sudo easy_install pip
For more information about pip refer to http://www.pip-installer.org
#. We will recommend using virtualenv for development.
#. Create a virtualenv for the project. This can be inside the project directory, but cannot be under version control::
python -m venv xhtml2pdfenv
#. Activate your virtualenv::
source xhtml2pdfenv/bin/activate
Later to deactivate it use::
deactivate
#. The next step will be to install/upgrade dependencies from the requirements.txt file::
pip install -r requirements.txt
#. Run tests to check your configuration::
nosetests --with-coverage
You should have a log with the following success status::
Ran 167 tests in 34.585s
OK
Some simple demos of how to integrate xhtml2pdf into a Python program may be found here: test/simple.py
Two different test suites are available to assert that xhtml2pdf works reliably:
#. Unit tests. The unit testing framework is currently minimal, but is being improved on a regular 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 is available at testrender/.
You can run them using make
.. code:: bash
make test # run nosetest
make test-ref # generate reference data for testrender
make test-all # Run all test using tox
This project is community-led! Feel free to open up issues on GitHub about new ideas to improve xhtml2pdf.
These are the major milestones and the maintainers of the project:
For more history, see the Release Notes <https://xhtml2pdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes.html>__.
Copyright 2010 Dirk Holtwick, holtwick.it
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
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