looking for an "low dependency" or pythonesque way to generate PDF's

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  • fpdf2

    Simple PDF generation for Python

  • How about fpdf2?

  • WeasyPrint

    The awesome document factory

  • I have used WeasyPrint in the past, it worked very well for the use case I had, which was basically a service that transforms HTML into PDF, it follows the W3C specification that is recommend for print (you can actually generate Headers and Footers that repeats every page, something that chrome doesn't do)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • gotenberg

    A developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files, and more!

  • https://gotenberg.dev - this is what I use now, you can host your own and have all your clients use it via API calls (just post an html + CSS file and it returns a PDF)

  • rmarkdown

    Dynamic Documents for R

  • What you want is not Python, its R Markdown; https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/

  • Flask-WeasyPrint

    Generate PDF files out of your Flask website thanks to WeasyPrint

  • PDF.js

    PDF Reader in JavaScript

  • borb

    borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

  • You might take a look at borb

  • SaaSHub

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