PDF prints requisites

Genropy offers different solutions and tools for creating prints.

However, they are all based on the creation of HTML which can then be immediately transformed into the corresponding PDF and then printed. For this reason, if you want to produce prints in this way, you need to install:

The Python library pyPdf2

The Python library WeasyPrint

pyPdf

Install pyPdf2 with the command:

pip install pyPdf2

WeasyPrint

To install WeasyPrint on macOS you need to install these pre-requisites:

brew install python pango libffi

On Windows, however, GTK3 is required.

And finally about Ubuntu:

apt install python3-pip python3-cffi python3-brotli libpango-1.0-0 libharfbuzz0b libpangoft2-1.0-0

Regardless of the platform it is then possible to proceed with the installation with pip:

pip install weasyprint

Hint

For installation we recommend referring to the WeasyPrint Documentation

Troubleshooting

The right and wrong way to set Python 3 as default on a Mac

gobject-2.0-0 not able to load on macbook

wkhtmltopdf (legacy)

Since July 2022 wkhtmltopdf is to be considered deprecated and to be used just in case of backward compatibility problems.

You can install it by downloading the version for your operating system from the site https://wkhtmltopdf.org