qprinter

Pdf Outputs with Qprinter

Converts a html into a pdf using Qt5's QPrinter class

• Use markdown (pip3 install Markdown) for markdown to html conversion
• and pygments (pip3 install Pygments) for code synthax highlighting in markdown files

from PyQt5.QtGui import QTextDocument
from PyQt5.QtPrintSupport import QPrinter
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication

import sys

def markdown():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)

    path = r"""markdown\markdown.html"""
    outputFile = r"""markdown\markdownOut.pdf"""

    with open(path, "r") as fp:
        html = fp.read()

    doc = QTextDocument()
    doc.setHtml(html)

    printer = QPrinter()
    printer.setOutputFileName(outputFile)
    printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter.PdfFormat)
    printer.setDocName("MAdZ Test")
    printer.setCreator("MSc")
    printer.setPageSize(QPrinter.A4)
    printer.setPageMargins(15, 15, 15, 15, QPrinter.Millimeter)

    doc.print(printer)
    print("Done printing..")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    markdown()