django-latex 0.1

Application to parse & make PDFs with Django

http://bitbucket.org/bearstech/django-latex/

Beta : not really for production use

Features :

• LaTeX :

  • Parse LaTeX Document
  • Render LaTeX Document Objects
  • Generate Base PDF Files
  • Combine simple LaTeX Documents

• Good test coverage

Todo :

• … much more

Examples :

Usage examples:

from latex import LatexDocument
ltxdoc = LatexDocument(latexstr)
print ltxdoc.packages
print ltxdoc.preamble

ltxdoc2 = LatexDocument(latexstr2)
ltxdoc3 = ltxdoc + ltxdoc2
ltxdoc3.as_latex()

# If some files have to be inclued
ltxdoc3.add_file("/home/cyberj/lolcat_1182.png", "lolcat.png")

f = open("/home/cyberj/motivational_4242.png", "rb")
ltxdoc3.add_file(f, "motivational.png")

pdf = ltxdoc3.as_pdf()

If pdflatex fails, it raises LatexDocument.LatexPdfGenerationError and clean tempdir. To preserve temporary directory give debug=True to as_pdf method.

Tests :

• cd tests
• python bootstrap
• ./bin/buildout.py -v
• ./bin/test-1.2 or ./bin/test-1.1

Requirements :

• Django >= 1.1
• pdflatex (and LaTeX distro)

Debian packages

• dblatex Produces DVI, PostScript, PDF documents from DocBook sources
• latex-xcolor Easy driver-independent TeX class for color
• preview-latex-style extraction of elements from LaTeX documents as graphics
• texlive-latex-base TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
• texlive-latex-base-doc TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-base
• texlive-latex-extra TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages
• texlive-latex-extra-doc TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-extra
• texlive-latex-recommended TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
• texlive-latex-recommended-doc TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-recommended