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A simple Markdown to PDF converter.
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| import markdown | |
| from xhtml2pdf import pisa | |
| from datetime import date | |
| TEMPLATE = """ | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <style> | |
| @page {{ | |
| size: letter portrait; | |
| @frame header_left_frame {{ | |
| -pdf-frame-content: header_left_content; | |
| left: 50pt; width: 170pt; top: 10pt; height: 40pt; | |
| }} | |
| @frame header_center_frame {{ | |
| -pdf-frame-content: header_center_content; | |
| left: 221pt; width: 170pt; top: 10pt; height: 40pt; | |
| }} | |
| @frame header_right_frame {{ | |
| -pdf-frame-content: header_right_content; | |
| left: 392pt; width: 170pt; top: 10pt; height: 40pt; | |
| }} | |
| @frame content_frame {{ | |
| left: 50pt; width: 512pt; top: 50pt; height: 692pt; | |
| margin: 10pt, 0; | |
| }} | |
| @frame footer_left_frame {{ | |
| -pdf-frame-content: footer_left_content; | |
| left: 50pt; width: 170pt; top: 742pt; height: 40pt; | |
| }} | |
| @frame footer_center_frame {{ | |
| -pdf-frame-content: footer_center_content; | |
| left: 221pt; width: 170pt; top: 742pt; height: 40pt; | |
| }} | |
| @frame footer_right_frame {{ | |
| -pdf-frame-content: footer_right_content; | |
| left: 392pt; width: 170pt; top: 742pt; height: 40pt; | |
| }} | |
| div {{border: 1px solid black;}} | |
| #header_left_content, #footer_left_content {{ | |
| text-align: left; | |
| }} | |
| #header_center_content, #footer_center_content {{ | |
| text-align: center; | |
| }} | |
| #header_right_content, #footer_right_content {{ | |
| text-align: right; | |
| }} | |
| #header_left_content, #header_center_content, #header_right_content {{ | |
| display:table-cell; | |
| vertical-align: bottom; | |
| }} | |
| }} | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <div id="header_left_content">{top_left}</div> | |
| <div id="header_center_content">{top_center}</div> | |
| <div id="header_right_content">{top_right}</div> | |
| <div id="footer_left_content">{bottom_left}</div> | |
| <div id="footer_center_content">{bottom_center}</div> | |
| <div id="footer_right_content">{bottom_right}</div> | |
| {body} | |
| </body> | |
| </html> | |
| """ | |
| positions = ('left', 'center', 'right') | |
| header_pos = [f'top_{pos}' for pos in positions] | |
| footer_pos = [f'bottom_{pos}' for pos in positions] | |
| def md2pdf(input, output, header=None, footer=None): | |
| header = header or ('', '', '') | |
| footer = footer or ('', '', '') | |
| with open(input, 'r') as fd: | |
| md_src = fd.read() | |
| context = {'body': markdown.markdown(md_src)} | |
| context.update(zip(header_pos, header)) | |
| context.update(zip(footer_pos, footer)) | |
| html = TEMPLATE.format(**context) | |
| with open(output, 'w+b') as fd: | |
| status = pisa.CreatePDF(html, dest=fd) | |
| return status.err | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| pisa.showLogging() | |
| today = date.today().strftime('%m/%d/%Y') | |
| md2pdf('source.md', 'output.pdf', header=('left', 'center', 'right'), footer=('left', 'center', 'Updated '+ today)) |
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