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Good PDF report generator tool for Python

What is a good tool for PDF report generation in Python? I've checked out ReportLab, but it seems to be awfully low-level for what I want to do. My current hunch is to call TeX on the command-line and ...
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html to pdf for a Django site

For my django powered site, I am looking for an easy solution to convert dynamic html pages (generated using django views and templates datas generated using GET forms) which also contains some graph ...
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Python PDF library [closed]

what's the best Python PDF library ? I need to make some PDF with many grid. I'm looking for a library that allow to manage pages (multi-page): the library should calculate when the page is ended and ...
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How to unit test a Python function that draws PDF graphics?

I'm writing a CAD application that outputs PDF files using the Cairo graphics library. A lot of the unit testing does not require actually generating the PDF files, such as computing the expected ...
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Django/Python: generate pdf with the proper language

I use Pisa/xhtml2pdf in my Django apps to generate pdf from an HTML source. That is: I generate the HTML file formatted with all 'printing' stuffs (e.g. page-breaks, header, footer, etc.) I convert ...
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sphinx (python) pdf generator

I use sphinx python documentation generator. Creating pdf documents are very easy and simple but.... i have one problem. All generated pdf documents have english words like "chapter", "release", ...
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Markdown : Is there any direct way to generate pdf from markdown file by python

As the title, I want to use markdown as my main write format and I need to generate PDF files from markdown using pure python.
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Is there a programmatic way to transform a sequence of image files into a PDF?

I have a sequence of JPG images. Each of the scans is already cropped to the exact size of one page. They are sequential pages of a valuable and out of print book. The publishing application requires ...
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Jinja-like for Pdf in Python

I am looking for the best accurate tool for PDF in Python that works like Jinja does for HTML. What are your suggestions?
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How can I generate a report file (ODF, PDF) from a django view

I would like to generate a report file from a view&template in django. Preferred file formats would be OpenOffice/ODF or PDF. What is the best way to do this? I do want to reuse the page layout ...
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Does a library exist to remove passwords from PDFs programmatically? [closed]

Does a library exist that will remove "owner" passwords from PDF documents so that the text can then be programmatically extracted from them? Something like PDF Technologies' Password Recovery tool, ...
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How to include page in PDF in PDF document in Python

I am using reportlab toolkit in Python to generate some reports in PDF format. I want to use some predefined parts of documents already published in PDF format to be included in generated PDF file. Is ...
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Docx to pdf using openoffice headless way too slow

I've been using PHPWord for docx files generation. And it's been working great. But now I have the need to also make available some of those files on a pdf version. After a few research I found ...
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Can anyone recommend a decent FOSS PDF generator for Python?

I need a basic pdf generator that'll let me toss some images and text into a pdf file. The ability to have some basic drawing commands (lines and so forth) would also be a plus. I did read through ...
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ReportLab: How to align a textobject?

I have the following ReportLab code: t = c.beginText() t.setFont('Arial', 25) t.setCharSpace(3) t.setTextOrigin(159,782) t.textLine("Some string") c.drawText(t) What I want ...

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