S13-Words-for-the-Future-notebooks/pdf-html2print/md-html-pdf.ipynb

Markdown - HTML - print¶

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import pypandoc
from weasyprint import HTML, CSS
from weasyprint.fonts import FontConfiguration

Markdown → HTML¶

Pandoc: "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife."

https://pandoc.org/

The Python library for Pandoc:

https://github.com/bebraw/pypandoc

Convert a Markdown file to HTML ...¶

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# ... directly from a file
html = pypandoc.convert_file('language.md', 'html')
print(html)

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# ... or from a pad

from urllib.request import urlopen

url = 'https://pad.xpub.nl/p/language/export/txt'
response = urlopen(url)
md = response.read().decode('UTF-8')

with open('language.md', 'w') as f:
    f.write(md)

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html = pypandoc.convert_file('language.md', 'html')
print(html)

HTML → PDF¶

for this we can use Weasyprint again

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html = HTML(string=html)
print(html)

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css = CSS(string='''
@page{
        size: A4;
        margin: 15mm;
    
        counter-increment: page;
        
        @top-left{
            content: "hello?";
        }
        @top-center{
            content: counter(page);
            font-size: 7pt;
            font-family: monospace;
            color: blue;
        }
        @bottom-center{
            content: "this is the bottom center!";
        }
    }
    
    body{
        color: magenta;
    }
''')

It's actually interesting and useful to have a close look at paged media properties in CSS:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%40page/size

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html.write_pdf('language.pdf', stylesheets=[css])

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