Kozea/WeasyPrint

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9531 stars · 863 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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WeasyPrint is a Python visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that exports documents to PDF, with a CSS layout engine designed for pagination. It lets web developers generate reports, invoices, tickets, and books from HTML/CSS without relying on a browser rendering engine.

Use cases

• convert html to pdf in python
• generate invoices from html templates
• create statistical reports as pdf
• print html with css paged media
• generate tickets with barcodes from html
• render a book with table of contents to pdf

When to choose

• you want to generate paginated PDFs from HTML and CSS in Python
• you need print-specific CSS features like page headers, footers, and multiple layouts
• you want a pure-Python alternative to headless browsers for PDF generation

When to avoid

• you need pixel-perfect rendering of complex JavaScript-driven web pages
• you need a general-purpose browser or screenshot tool rather than PDF output
• you require a rendering engine based on WebKit or Gecko

Facets

library · maturity active

pdf templating image-processing pdf web-development files python cross-platform cli html-to-pdf css-paged-media rendering-engine print-to-pdf document-generation

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