PDF generation / edit

[SpongeB0B]

Hi everyone,

I made a little website with flask, now I would like to generate a pdf (static) with the content of that website.

By static I mean that I will generate the PDF once, not the user.

Ideally I'm looking for a package that can edit a PDF, as such I can build a base with a regular program with a GUI and insert afterward text, image etc.. with that package.. any ideas ?

sorry the question might be already asked but I couldn't find it with the search engine as it need at least characters (PDF) :/

[Larz60+]

There are several packages available for this:

• Probably the most famous and comprehensive is reportlab (and perhaps most complex to use).
  It's a commercial product, but has a free community edition here: https://www.reportlab.com/dev/opensource/
  
• Easier to use, is pandoc: https://pandoc.org/
  can convert to and from a lot of different formats.
  see examples here: https://pandoc.org/demos.html
  
• If your data can be displayed as a dataframe, then without a doubt, pandas is the way to go:
  Use read html: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/st..._html.html
  and then
  docstring: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/st...rite%20pdf
  There is some conversion needed here to get from docstring to pdf, but you can find that with google.
  
• There are a lot of packages avail in PyPi you will have to visit those that look promising to find right one
  see: https://pypi.org/search/?q=pdf&o=
  
• Never forget google, use following (include quotes in search): "python pdf creation"
  

[SpongeB0B]

Thanks again @Larz60+ ,

Actually I didn't g00gle it, but asked the Duck instead

and doing so, I've found : FPDF2 and more precisely how add content to an existing .pdf

https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/ExistingPDFs.html

I will let a little review of this package here when I'm done.