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.SH "NAME"
xhtml2pdf \- PDF generator using HTML and CSS
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBxhtml2pdf\fR\ 'u
\fBxhtml2pdf\fR [\fB\-b\ \fR\fB\fIbase\ path\fR\fR] [\fB\-\-base=\fR\fB\fIbase\ path\fR\fR] [\fB\-c\ \fR\fB\fICSS\ file\fR\fR] [\fB\-\-css=\fR\fB\fICSS\ file\fR\fR] [\fB\-\-css\-dump\fR] [\fB\-d\fR] [\fB\-\-debug\fR] [\fB\-\-encoding=\fR\fB\fIcharacter\ encoding\fR\fR] [\fB\-h\fR] [\fB\-\-help\fR] [\fB\-q\fR] [\fB\-\-quiet\fR] [\fB\-\-version\fR] [\fB\-w\fR] [\fB\-\-warn\fR] [\fB\-x\fR] [\fB\-\-xml\fR] [\fB\-\-xhtml\fR] [\fB\-\-html\fR] [SRC] [DEST]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This manual page documents briefly the xhtml2pdf command\&.
.PP
xhtml2pdf is an HTML\-to\-PDF converter using the ReportLab Toolkit, HTML5lib and pyPdf\&.
.PP
It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2\&.1 (and some of CSS 3)\&. It is completely written in pure Python so it is platform independent\&. The main benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills like HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without learning new technologies\&. Easy integration into Python frameworks like CherryPy, KID Templating, TurboGears, Django, Zope, Plone, Google AppEngine (GAE) etc\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
A summary of options is included below\&.
.PP
SRC
.RS 4
Name of a HTML file or a file pattern using
*
placeholder\&. If you want to read from stdin use
\-
as file name\&. You may also load an URL over HTTP\&. Take care of putting the
\fIsrc\fR
in quotes if it contains characters like
?\&.
.RE
.PP
DEST
.RS 4
Name of the generated PDF file or
\-
if you like to send the result to stdout\&. Take care that the destination file is not already opened by any other application like the Adobe Reader\&. If the destination is not writeable a similar name will be calculated automatically\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-base\fR
.RS 4
Specify a base path if input comes via STDIN\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-css\fR
.RS 4
Path to default CSS file
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-css\-dump\fR
.RS 4
Dumps the default CSS definitions to STDOUT\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR
.RS 4
Show debugging information\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-encoding\fR
.RS 4
The character encoding of SRC\&. If left empty (default) this information will be extracted from the HTML header data\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
.RS 4
Show the help text\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
.RS 4
Show no messages\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-version\fR
.RS 4
Show version information\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-warn\fR
.RS 4
Show warnings
.RE
.PP
\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-xml\fR, \fB\-\-xhtml\fR
.RS 4
Force parsing in XML mode (automatically used if SRC ends with
\&.xml)\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-html\fR
.RS 4
Force parsin in HTML mode (default)\&.
.RE
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
xhtml2pdf was written by Dirk Holtwick
<<dirk\&.holtwick@gmail\&.com>>\&.
.PP
This manual page was written by Toby Smithe
<<tsmithe@ubuntu\&.com>>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others)\&.