A common problem when developing a web application is having producing a high-quality PDF out of an existing layout/view/template. Perhaps for a reporting engine, an invoice, a receipt, or any number of other situations. Often this involves using somewhat cryptic output primitives and creating the PDF by hand. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were [...]

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First of all, big shout out to antialize for creating wkhtmltopdf (github repo). Also, this project is being hosted on GitHub @ http://github.com/mreiferson/py-wkhtmltox. wkhtmltox What is wkhtmltox you ask? It’s a utility built on Nokia’s Qt framework for converting HTML (including images, CSS, and Javascript) to a PDF or image. When Qt introduced it’s webkit [...]

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