pyhtml2pdf 0.1.0

Simple python wrapper to convert HTML to PDF with headless Chrome via selenium.

pyhtml2pdf

Simple python wrapper to convert HTML to PDF with headless Chrome via selenium.

Install

pip install pyhtml2pdf

Dependencies

• Selenium Chrome Webdriver (If Chrome is installed on the machine you won't need to install the chrome driver)
• Ghostscript

Example

Convert to PDF

Use with website url

from pyhtml2pdf import converter

converter.convert('https://pypi.org', 'sample.pdf')

Use with html file from local machine

import os
from pyhtml2pdf import converter

path = os.path.abspath('index.html')
converter.convert(f'file:///{path}', 'sample.pdf')

Some JS objects may have animations or take a some time to render. You can set a time out in order to help render those objects. You can set timeout in seconds

converter.convert(source, target, timeout=2)

Compress the converted PDF

Some PDFs may be oversized. So there is a built in PDF compression feature.

The power of the compression,

• 0: default
• 1: prepress
• 2: printer
• 3: ebook
• 4: screen

converter.convert(source, target, compress=True, power=0)

Pass Print Options

You can use print options mentioned here

converter.convert( f"file:///{path}", f"sample.pdf", print_options={"scale": 0.95} )

Compress PDF

Use it to compress a PDF file from local machine

import os
from pyhtml2pdf import compressor

compressor.compress('sample.pdf', 'compressed_sample.pdf')

Inspired the works from,

• https://github.com/maxvst/python-selenium-chrome-html-to-pdf-converter.git
• https://github.com/theeko74/pdfc