PDF Generator Python using pdfkit installation process

1. Download library pdfkit: $ pip install pdfkit (or pip3 for python3)
2. Install wkhtmltopdf:
   • Debian/Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
   • For Windows:(a) Download link: wkhtmltopdf(b)Set: PATH variable set binary folder in Environment variables.

Warning! Version in debian/ubuntu repos have reduced functionality (because it compiled without the wkhtmltopdf QT patches), such as adding outlines, headers, footers, TOC etc. To use this options you should install static binary from wkhtmltopdf site.

• Windows and other options: check wkhtmltopdf homepage for binary installers

use cases for PDF–Generator–Python using pdfkit

(i) if you have html file already saved on your system

 import pdfkit
 
 pdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out.pdf')

(ii) if you have any website URl; which needs to be converted:

  import pdfkit
  
  pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf')

(iii) if you have series of string in the codes; which needs to be shown in the form of PDF:

  import pdfkit
 
  pdfkit.from_string('Hello!', 'out.pdf')

Configuration

Each API call takes an optional configuration parameter. This should be an instance of pdfkit.configuration() API call. It takes the configuration options as initial parameters. The available options are:

• wkhtmltopdf – the location of the wkhtmltopdf binary. By default pdfkit will attempt to locate this using which (on UNIX type systems) or where (on Windows).
• meta_tag_prefix – the prefix for pdfkit specific meta tags – by default this is pdfkit-

Windows Specific Configuration

Example – for when wkhtmltopdf is on $PATH:

   path_to_wkhtmltopdf = r"C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe" 

   config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=path_to_wkhtmltopdf)

   pdfkit.from_file(html_string, output_file, configuration=config)

Linux/Ubuntu Specific Configuration

Example – for when wkhtmltopdf is not on $PATH:

Also you can use configuration() call to check if wkhtmltopdf is present in $PATH:

try:

  config = pdfkit.configuration()
  
pdfkit.from_string(html_string, output_file)

except OSError:

# not present in PATH

Get APIs Response and send to HTML:

API data segregation typically involves extracting relevant information from an API response and organizing it into a format that can be easily used and displayed     by an application. This may involve filtering, sorting, or manipulating the data in some way.Once the data has been segregated, it can be sent to HTML using           variety   of techniques   

Rendering Response Data to HTML

html

The html on django templates

Using Matplotlib

Matplotlib pie charts are used to display data in a circular graph, where the size of each slice represents the proportion of the whole and commonly used to visualize categorical data and the relative sizes of different categories. Examples of use cases include market share of different products, distribution of budget among different departments, or the breakdown of survey responses by answer choice.

sample example

We have five sections and each section have some scores, based on these scores we will draw a pie chart using matplotlib

• Connectedness
• Substance
• Nutrition
• Recovery
• Movement

output pdf

We will see the information on pdf for the sameple data:

• Profile Information
• Lifestyle scoring
• Vitals and Anthropometrics
• Immunization
• Appointments

from API’s response we can save an create a PDF file. Here is the sample response pdf file created with pdf-generator-python