PDF generation in python using wkhtmltopdf suitable for Heroku.

Based on pywkher but significantly extended.

The repo is pretty large (currently 116mb) because it contains two binary version of wkhtmltopdf, one for use on Heroku (Ubuntu 10.04) and one for use on Ubuntu 14.04. See this discussion for an explanation.

import pydf
pdf = pydf.generate_pdf('<h1>this is html</h1>')
open('test_doc.pdf', 'w').write(pdf)

pdf = pydf.generate_pdf('www.google.com')
open('google.pdf', 'w').write(pdf)

Generate a pdf from either a url or a html string.

After the html and url arguments all other arguments are passed straight to wkhtmltopdf

For details on extra arguments see the output of get_help() and get_extended_help()

All arguments whether specified or caught with extra_kwargs are converted to command line args with "'--' + original_name.replace('_', '-')"

Arguments which are True are passed with no value eg. just --quiet, False and None arguments are missed, everything else is passed with str(value).

Arguments:

• source: html string to generate pdf from or url to get
• quiet: bool
• grayscale: bool
• lowquality: bool
• margin_bottom: string eg. 10mm
• margin_left: string eg. 10mm
• margin_right: string eg. 10mm
• margin_top: string eg. 10mm
• orientation: Portrait or Landscape
• page_height: string eg. 10mm
• page_width: string eg. 10mm
• page_size: string: A4, Letter, etc.
• image_dpi: int default 600
• image_quality: int default 94
• extra_kwargs: any exotic extra options for wkhtmltopdf

Returns string representing pdf

Get version of pydf and wkhtmltopdf binary

get help string from wkhtmltopdf binary uses -h command line option

get extended help string from wkhtmltopdf binary uses -H command line option

Low level function to call wkhtmltopdf, arguments are added to wkhtmltopdf binary and passed to subprocess with not processing.