headless-pdfkit

A headless version of pdfkit which makes use of xvfb-run


Keywords
pdf-generation, pdfkit
License
MIT
Install
pip install headless-pdfkit==0.1.4

Documentation

Headless PDFKit

The PDFKit package makes use of wkhtmltopdf, which in turn needs an X Server to run. In Debian land, this generally requires xvfb-run wrapper.

The headless_pdfkit package tries to make the hotfix proposed by jakewins a bit easier to work with.

Installation

You can install headless_pdfkit by running:

pip install headless-pdfkit

Examples

Save a simple PDF from string.:

from headless_pdfkit import generate_pdf

ret = generate_pdf('<html></html>')
with open('output.pdf', 'wb') as w:
    w.write(ret)

Save a simple PDF from string while passing the --auto-servernum parameter to xvfb-run.:

options = {
    'auto_servernum': ''
}

ret = generate_pdf('<html></html>', options=options)
with open('output.pdf', 'wb') as w:
    w.write(ret)