Python PDF library

Question

What Python PDF libraries are there?

I need to make some PDF with many grids, and I'm looking for a library that allows to manage pages (multi-page). The library should calculate when the page is ended and then create the next page.

Solution 1

The two that come to mind are:

• pyPdf2
• PDFMiner

Solution 2

Reportlab. There is an open source version, and a paid version which adds the Report Markup Language (an alternative method of defining your document).

Solution 3

I already have used Reportlab in one project.

Solution 4

There is also http://appyframework.org/pod.html which takes a LibreOffice or OpenOffice document as template and can generate pdf, rtf, odt ... To generate pdf it requires a headless OOo on some server. Documentation is concise but relatively complete. http://appyframework.org/podWritingTemplates.html If you need advice, the author is rather helpful.

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Comments

[octopusgrabbus]

From reading pyPdf's documentation, it appears to manipulate existing PDFs. Is there a Python library that will print/convert to PDF? Thanks.

[monokrome]

These libraries don't make PDFs. They just edit them.

[Wonil]

Maybe, this Q&A can help - stackoverflow.com/questions/1180115/…

[Loïc]

Reportlab is really good. Another good one for simple tasks and for people who know about html is xhtml2pdf.