System:

• Linux 32/64 or OSX only (Windows is not supported at this stage)

• Xvfd

• wkhtmltopdf

• python 2.5+

wkhtmltopdf (Linux)

1. Install Xvfd:

   $ sudo apt-get install xvfb

2. Install Fonts:

   $ sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-cyrillic

3. Install wkhtmltopdf:

   $ sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

wkhtmltopdf (OSX)

1. Install wkhtmltopdf:

   $ brew install wkhtmltopdf

python-wkhtmltopdf (Any Platform)

1. Development:

   $ git clone https://bitbucket.org/luisfernando/html2pdf.git
   $ cd html2pdf
   $ virtualenv .
   $ pip install -r requirements.pip

2. PIP:

   $ pip install git+https://bitbucket.org/luisfernando/html2pdf.git
   
   or from pypi
   
   $ pip install html2pdf

Simple Usage::

1. Render a URL:

   from wkhtmltopdf import HTMLURLToPDF
   
   make_pdf = HTMLURLToPDF(
       url='http://www.example.com',
       output_file='~/example.pdf',
   )
   make_pdf.render()

2. Render a HTML string:

   from html2pdf import HTMLToPDF
   
   HTML = """
       <!DOCTYPE html>
       <html>
           <body>
           <h1>Hello World</h1>
           </body>
       </html>
   """
   
   h = HTMLToPDF(HTML, self.output_file)

Required Arguments:

• url - the url to convert to pdf

• output_file - the pdf file that you want to create

Optional Arguments:

• enable-plugins (default: True)

• disable-javascript (default: False)

• no-background (default: False)

• grayscale (default: False)

• orientation (default: Portrait)

• dpi (default: 100)

• username (default: None)

• password (default: None)

• margin-bottom (default: 10)

• margin-top (default: 10)

• margin-left (default: 10)

• margin-right (default: 10)

• disable-smart-shrinking (default: False)