django-python how to convert text to pdf

Question

I am doing a project in python-django, i would like to know whether there is any built-in library or something like that, that can convert text to pdf. Something similar to pyTeaser for converting image to text

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

There are several options out there:

• reportlab (suggested by django docs)
• PDFMiner (or +slate wrapper)
• pdfrw
• xhtml2pdf
• pyfpdf (no changes since august, 2012)
• pyPdf (not maintained)

Also take a look at:

• Python PDF library
• Outputting PDFs with Django
• Open Source PDF Libraries in Python
• Generating PDFs with Django
• Django, ReportLab PDF Generation attached to an email
• A Simple Step-by-Step Reportlab Tutorial
• Django output pdf using reportlab

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I have been using django-webodt for a few days now to convert OpenOffice template (.odt) dynamically into PDF filling placeholders with database models.

test.odt could be...

Hello {{ first_name }}

import webodt
template = webodt.ODFTemplate('test.odt')
context = dict(first_name="Mary")
document = template.render(Context(context))
from webodt.converters import converter
conv = converter()
pdf = conv.convert(document, format='pdf')