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Create nice looking PDFs from developer documentation

Author:
henning
Posted:
December 18, 2007
Language:
Python
Version:
.96
Score:
6 (after 6 ratings)

You need htmldoc, rst2html, the Python Imaging Libraray, BeautfiulSoup and spoon. The Debian/Ubuntu-packages are called htmldoc, python-docutils, python-imaging and python-beautifulsoup You can get spoon.py http://beautifulspoon.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/spoon.py

To create the pdf files you have to call the script from django_src/docs

Here is an example output: http://henning.cco-ev.de/django/essential.pdf

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
import os
import re
import urllib
from PIL import Image
from spoon import Spoon


CACHE_PATH = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "djangobook-image-cache")


rst2html_cmd = "rst2html"
htmldoc_cmd = "htmldoc"


books = [
   ("essential", [
            "overview", "install", 
            "tutorial01", "tutorial02", "tutorial03", "tutorial04",
            "faq", "documentation"
            ]),
   ("deployment", [
            "modpython", "fastcgi"
            ]),
   ("reference", [
            "django-admin",
            "model-api", "db-api", "transactions",
            "templates", "templates_python",
            "newforms", "forms", "modelforms",
            "testing",
            "sessions", 
            "cache", 
            "i18n",
            "middleware", 
            "settings",
            "url_dispatch",
            "request_response",
            "generic_views",
            "authentication",
            "shortcuts",
            "unicode",
            ]),
    ("contrib", [
            "add_ons",
            "contenttypes",
            "csrf",
            "databrowse",
            "flatpages",
            "form_preview",
            "redirects",
            "sites",
            "sitemaps",
            "syndication_feeds",
            "webdesign"
            ]),
   ("solutions", [
           "apache_auth",
           "static_files",
           "email",
           "legacy_databases",
           "outputting_pdf",
           "outputting_csv",
           ]),
   ("etc", [
           "design_philosophies",
           "contributing",
           "admin_css",
           "api_stability",
           ])
            
]

book_template = """\
<html>
<head><title>Django Developer Documentation: %(title)s</title>
<body>
%(html)s
</body>
</html>
"""


title_template = """
<html>
<head><title>Django Developer Documentation: %(title)s</title>
<body>
<!-- ugly html - but looks good as pdf -->
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>

<img src="%(logo)s" width="100%%"><br/><br/>
<table width="100%%" cellpadding="10">
<tr bgcolor="#092e20" ><td><font color="#ffffff" size="+4" face="Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif">
Django Developer Documentation
</font></td></tr>
<tr><td><b><font size="+5">%(title)s</font></b></td></tr>
</table>


</body>
</html>
"""



chapter_template = """\
<h1><a name="%(filename)s"></a>%(chapter_title)s</h1>
%(chapter)s
"""



if not os.path.exists(CACHE_PATH):
    os.makedirs(CACHE_PATH)

    
def load_image(url):
    filename = os.path.join(
       CACHE_PATH, 
       re.sub("\W", "_", url))
    if not os.path.exists(filename):
        print "* loading %s..." % url,
        sys.stdout.flush()
        # Thumbnail?
        if url.endswith("t.png"):
            try:
                urllib.urlretrieve(url[:-5] + ".png", filename)
                print "done"
                return filename
            except:
                pass
        urllib.urlretrieve(url, filename)
        print "done"
    return filename




def make_pdf(bookname, html):
    logo = load_image("http://media.djangoproject.com/img/logos/django-logo-positive.png")
    title = bookname.capitalize()
    title_html = "%s-title.html" %  bookname
    open(title_html, "w").write(title_template % vars())
    open("%s.html" % bookname, "w").write(book_template % vars())
    cmd = htmldoc_cmd + " --numbered -f %(bookname)s.pdf --titlefile %(title_html)s %(bookname)s.html"
    os.system(cmd % vars())



complete_html = ""           
for bookname, files in books:
    html = ""
    for filename in files:
        print bookname, filename
        target = "%s.html" % filename
        os.system(rst2html_cmd + " %(filename)s.txt > %(target)s" % vars())
        spoon = Spoon(open(target).read())
        # Change headings
        for hi in range(5, 0, -1):
            for i, tag in enumerate(spoon._["h%s" % hi]):
                tag["name"] = "h%s" % (hi + 1)
        for link in spoon._.a:
            href = link["@href"]
            if href.startswith("../") and href.endswith("/"):
                href = href[3:-1]
                if href in files:
                    href = "#%s" % href
                else:
                    href = "http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/%s" % href
                link["@href"] = href
        # Fix embedded images
        for img in spoon._.img:
            src = img["@src"]
            if src.startswith("http"):
                img["@src"] = src = load_image(src)
            try:
                im = Image.open(src)
                width = im.size[0]
                if width > 400:
                    img["@width"] = "100%"
                if im.format == "PSD":
                    # yes there are photoshop files called .png on the site :(
                    print "* converting photoshop file...",
                    sys.stdout.flush()
                    im.save(src, "png")
                    print "done"
            except Exception, e:
                print e
        chapter_title = " ".join([
                s.capitalize() for s in re.split("(\d+|[A-Za-z]+)", filename.replace("_", " ")) if s
                ])
        chapter = spoon._.body.inner_html()
        html += chapter_template % vars()
    complete_html += html
    make_pdf(bookname, html)


make_pdf("complete", complete_html)

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Comments

ant21 (on December 20, 2007):

It rocks! The pdfs it created are really nice. Thank you henning.

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