[reportlab-users] html to pdf

[Stephan Richter]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 09:43, Chris Withers wrote:

> I'm sure this is quite a perenial question on this list, but how would I

> go about turning html+css to pdf using reportlabs tools?

>

> I'm not sure exactly what's possible yet so I'm interesting in the

> options, including things like using PageCatcher to wrap the generated

> pdf with graphic-designer produced pdf front and back covers and/or

> using the html structure but taking the style as elsewhere.

>

> I'm quite happy to use bits of the commercial reportlab library if they

> make this easier and I can get hold of the necessary budget...


I would use an XML transformation from HTML to RML; then you can do the styles 
yourself. Also RpeortLab Inc.'s RML and z3c.rml support putting multiple 
pages together using PageCatcher and pyPDF, respectively.

Regards,
Stephan
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