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Re: new python based pdf engime

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MoaHub, Graeme Gellatly
- 14/11/2018 03:15:34
I spent some time, some time ago looking at different pdf engines.

Non HTML Syntax
rml - awful performance at scale, unfriendly syntax, excellent layout capabilties. I actually quite liked rml, except its performance.
libreoffice variants - graphical layout, but not really once you get a few conditionals in there. slow, heavy.

xhtml2pdf - never got as far as testing performance on large docs, would be a dropin replacement,has layout features,but no css framework support which is a dealbreaker. Kind of a cross between wkhtmltopdf and reportlab. Immature project but if it got css framework support, then the page layouting features might make it worth it.
wkhtml2pdf - well the benchmark really, most issues are around layout control and render quality, but they are bad enough that a good replacement would be welcomed - adding bookmarks, signing, backgrounds, svg rendering, variable header and footer, differing results on different servers, even page numbers aren't supported properly etc. Quickish for big docs, slow for little.

Weasyprint - at the time it didn't offer anything extra and was not a drop-in so I didn't do anything, but looking now it looks like it has got loads of love including basic layout support.
puppeteer-pdf/headless chromium - fast, faster than wkhtml2pdf. basic support for layout control through @media css - not sure on integration troubles.

Certainly if I had to choose what to put through more thorough testing now it would be the last two. I know there is a headless chrome OCA PR out there, so probably easy enough to test.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:27 PM Mohamed M. Hagag <mohamedhagag1981@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally I didn't find anything even near in performance to 
wkhtmltopdf, even firefox, chrome and libreoffice.
In the last week I was able to get a ~2250 pages Partner Ledger report 
with ~128,000 lines in less than a minute using wkhtmltopdf after some 
tweaking to the source html.
trying to convert the same html to pdf using libreoffice, chrome or 
firefox hangs the application or the system.

Also I tried AthenaPDF with same results of chrome.

the latest version of wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 is working great in features 
and performance for reporting in Odoo .

My 2 cents

Regards,


On 11/09/2018 09:51 PM, Xavier Brochard wrote:


> Hi


>


> WeasyPrint, a new python based pdf engine has just released its first stable


> version. It is already deployed in New-York city, in UK and in some hospitals.


> So I guess it is safe :-)


>


> It comes from Kozea, a french company based in Lyon. So may be guys from


> Akretion knows them already ?


>


> Their dedicated english web site is https://weasyprint.org/


> And we have just published a french presentation on http://linuxfr.org


>


> Loo,ks like ic could easily replaced wkhtmltopdf.


>


> (I'm not advertising for linuxfr.org here. It is just fortuity, to have 2 Odoo


> related news in two days).


>


> -- Librement, Xavier Brochard / Zeroheure « La liberté est à l'homme 


> ce que les ailes sont à l'oiseau » (Jean-Pierre Rosnay)


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