WeasyPrint Reviews and Details

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• Render an HTML Table to PNG in Python (5 Ways, 2026)

  WeasyPrint comes up in every "HTML to image" search, so it's worth being precise: it's an excellent, actively-maintained pure-Python engine — but it renders to PDF only (PNG export was removed in v53) and runs no JavaScript. If your table is static HTML/CSS and you actually want a PDF, WeasyPrint is a great, dependency-light choice and you don't need any of the above. If you need a PNG, or your table/chart is... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?

  Just print to PDF in a browser, or automate that using a browser automation tool. For a non-browser-based open source solution, WeasyPrint. https://weasyprint.org/ For a proprietary solution, try Prince XML: https://www.princexml.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate Beautiful PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python

  How does it differ from https://weasyprint.org ? - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty

  You can learn more about weasyprint on their website (https://weasyprint.org/ ). It's an open source Python package that can be launched using cli or from Python code. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: PlutoBook – Fast, lightweight C++ library for generating PDF from HTML

  This is interesting. So it's HTML -> PDF without using Chrome/Puppeteer etc.? Is that correct. It reminds me of https://weasyprint.org/ Weasyprint (by their own admission) have really struggled with a lot of bugs, which isn't surprising if you're allowing arbitrary HTML input - how are you getting on with that? - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

  WEasyPrint is great for generating invoices from html! https://weasyprint.org/ Also the only good implementation of web layout/rendering I've seen done in python. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

  Wkhtmltopdf is not chromium though? "Wk" literally stands for WebKit. There's also https://weasyprint.org/ which doesn't use any browser engine, but rather a custom renderer. And both of those (and Prince) can be used as a backend by Pandoc (https://pandoc.org/). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

  Just to note it : there is also https://weasyprint.org (but I also love Typst and it would be my first choice nowadays if I had to pick such a tool). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Converting Plotly charts into images in parallel

  To create our PDF reports, we use a combination of Weasyprint, Jinja, and Plotly charts. To render a report as a PDF, we first have to render all graphs as images. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs

  Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint? https://weasyprint.org I've gone through a number of systems to convert CV's, business cards, and other docs and it hasn't let me down yet. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• CSS for Printing to Paper

  You don't _have_ to use a browser. I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there's also PrinceXML [1] if you're willing to pay. [0]: https://weasyprint.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: A new open-source library to design PDF using React

  Thanks for your answer! I imagined you would be using PrinceXML behind the scenes since that is probably the gold standard in HTML+CSS rendering. The only open source alternative I know of is WeasyPrint at https://weasyprint.org/. I'm not sure how well it fares against PrinceXML, though. And thanks for the pointer to Taffy - I didn't know it before! - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS

  Some people might be interested in https://weasyprint.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What's the best way to write a book in Markdown?

  I use Weasyprint [1] to generate a PDF from HTML, and I use a static site generator to convert Markdown to HTML. Weasyprint can handle code highlighting e.g. Using Pygments or another static framework, the only downside is it can't execute JS so if you e.g. Want to dynamically generate content to render you need to first pass your HTML through a headless browser, which is also possible though. There's also... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An Open Source App to Create PDF Invoices for Free

  For Python there is Weasyprint: you prepare the invoice as an HTML document, and Weasyprint turns it into a PDF https://weasyprint.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person (curl dev)

  Well yes, but you can implement HTML+CSS. WeasyPrint did from scratch, and independent implementations of HTML+CSS are considerably more numerous than HTML+CSS+JS. Source: about 3 years ago

• RE: If you had to pick a library from another language (Rust, JS, etc.) that isn’t currently available in Python and have it instantly converted into Python for you to use, what would it be?

  You should maybe check out weasyprint. https://weasyprint.org/. Source: over 3 years ago

• Render PDF with Python

  If you plan to create a PDF document from scratch, there are two methods to consider: RML and WeasyPrint. RML is an XML markup language, while WeasyPrint employs HTML/CSS markup. Both are capable of being converted into PDF. Source: over 3 years ago

• Typst, a modern alternative to LaTeX, is now open source

  If you don't have high typesetting needs, maybe WeasyPrint fits your use case. [1] https://weasyprint.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Laying Out a Print Book with CSS

  I would also recommend https://weasyprint.org if you are generating PDFs. Generating invoices, resumes, reports, flyers, etc. From plain Markdown is a two-line affair: https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2023/03/19/1849#tuesday-2023-03-14. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Generating a Receipt

  I've used https://weasyprint.org/ successfuly for similar things. Source: over 3 years ago