Introduction

Personally, wkhtmltopdf is familiar as a library for outputting PDF. However, I happened to find a library called WeasyPrint, so I tried it.

Installation

$ pip install weasyprint

Example of use

Convert the following HTML to PDF. Since it's a big deal, it can be displayed in two columns like a PDF document.

quanon/magica.html

The text is [Wikipedia »Puella Magi Madoka Magica](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%94%E6%B3%95%E5%B0%91%E5%A5%B3" Quoted from% E3% 81% BE% E3% 81% A9% E3% 81% 8B% E2% 98% 86% E3% 83% 9E% E3% 82% AE% E3% 82% AB).

We also have a PDF-specific CSS called pdf.css.

`pdf.css`


@page {
  margin: 8.0rem 2.0rem;
  font-family: YuMincho, "Hiragino Mincho ProN", serif;

  @top-center {
    content: "Magical Girl Madoka ☆ Magica";
    vertical-align: bottom;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
    border-bottom: 0.1rem solid;
    margin-bottom: 1.2rem;
  }

  @bottom-right {
    content: counter(page) " / " counter(pages);
  }
}

Output the PDF with the following command.

$ weasyprint magica.html magica.pdf -s pdf.css

It was: tada:

Here is the output PDF.

スクリーンショット 2017-09-11 22.46.36.png

It's easy to use and has a lot of documentation, so I'd like to continue using it: sparkling_heart:

Bonus: Docker compatible

`Dockerfile`


FROM python:3.6.2

RUN apt-get update \
 && apt-get install -y \
      python-lxml \
      fontconfig \
      libcairo2 \
      libpango1.0-0 \
      libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 \
      libffi-dev \
      shared-mime-info \
      unzip \
 && apt-get autoremove \
 && apt-get clean

WORKDIR /opt

ENV WEASYPRINT_VERSION 0.40
RUN pip install weasyprint==$WEASYPRINT_VERSION

ADD https://noto-website.storage.googleapis.com/pkgs/NotoSerifCJKjp-hinted.zip .
RUN unzip -d noto NotoSerifCJKjp-hinted.zip \
 && mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/opentype \
 && mv -fv noto /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto \
 && rm -rfv NotoSerifCJKjp-hinted.zip \
 && fc-cache -fv

`docker-compose.yml`


version: '3.3'
services:
  weasyprint:
    build: .
    volumes:
      - .:/opt/data-volume
    working_dir: /opt/data-volume
    entrypoint:
      - weasyprint
    command:
      - -h

$ docker-compose run weasyprint magica.html magica.pdf -s pdf.css

reference

WeasyPrint

Kozea/WeasyPrint

CSS

[DOCKER] Output PDF with WeasyPrint