pisa.CreatePDF hangs with huge html file

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I am generating pdf using html template with python pisa.CreatePDF API, It works well with small html, but in case of huge html it takes lot of time. Is there any alternative ?

@NorthCat is there a way to auto generate a table of contents including page numbers? — yishairasowsky, Sep 12 '21 at 08:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 20 '15 at 09:34

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I did few changes in html which results pisa.createPDF works fast for me. I am using html of almost 2 MB, contains single table with almost more than 10,000 rows. So I break them into multiple tables and tried again. Its surprised me, initially with single table it took almost 40 minutes (2590 seconds) to generate PDF and with multiple tables it has taken only 80 Seconds.

answered May 20 '15 at 09:34

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Can you please share more details on breaking tables into multiple? Did you create multiple pdf and merged or something else? – Hiren Jun 28 '18 at 14:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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You can try pdfkit:

import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out.pdf')

Also see this question which describes solutions using PyQt.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered May 15 '15 at 10:44

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Is there a way to make it automatically generate a table of contents with the page numbers? – yishairasowsky Sep 12 '21 at 08:51

pisa.CreatePDF hangs with huge html file

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