Python HTML to PDF with floating divs

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Is there a way to convert XHTML/HTML with CSS to PDF with floating divs?

I have tried pisa/xhtml2pdf in python and dompdf in PHP both are not able to do so.

Is there any way?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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See html-tables-to-pdf-in-php-neither-dompdf-nor-html2ps-pdf-are-working.

A possible path is to use some Layout (Rendering) Engine, such as Webkit or Gecko. The rendered HTML page can then be saved as PDF. An example of a tool that uses this method is the wkhtmltopdf project.

(I know, this is not related to Python or PHP - you can still drive the tool from a script.).

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answered Apr 22 '10 at 05:52

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The concept looks interesting will certainly try it. – GeekTantra Apr 22 '10 at 06:27
Seems theres a PHP integration on this.. http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/wiki/IntegrationWithPhp – GeekTantra Apr 22 '10 at 08:21
There is a Python integration on this as well http://github.com/mreiferson/py-wkhtmltox – Alvin Jul 10 '11 at 20:24

Alvin · Answer 2 · 2017-07-06T18:54:38.087

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Found a blog post that does this very thing

http://web.archive.org/web/20130525082452/http://notes.alexdong.com/xhtml-to-pdf-using-pyqt4-webkit-and-headless

got it working rather quickly using the more mature pyqt4 module

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answered Jul 10 '11 at 22:28

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Python HTML to PDF with floating divs

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