How to convert IPython notebooks to PDF and HTML?

Question

I want to convert my ipython-notebooks to print them, or simply send them in html format. I have noticed that there exists a tool to do that already, nbconvert. Although I h

Answer 1

notebook-as-pdfInstall

python -m pip install notebook-as-pdf pyppeteer-install

Use it

You can also use it with nbconvert:

jupyter-nbconvert --to PDFviaHTML filename.ipynb

which will create a file called filename.pdf.

or pip install notebook-as-pdf

create pdf from notebook jupyter-nbconvert-toPDFviaHTML

Answer 2

If you have LaTeX installed you can download as PDF directly from Jupyter notebook with File -> Download as -> PDF via LaTeX (.pdf). Otherwise follow these two steps.

1. For HTML output, you should now use Jupyter in place of IPython and select File -> Download as -> HTML (.html) or run the following command:

   jupyter nbconvert --to html notebook.ipynb  
   

   This will convert the Jupyter document file notebook.ipynb into the html output format.

   Google Colaboratory is Google's free Jupyter notebook environment that requires no setup and runs entirely in the cloud. If you are using Google Colab the commands are the same, but Google Colab only lets you download .ipynb or .py formats.

2. Convert the html file notebook.html into a pdf file called notebook.pdf. In Windows, Mac or Linux, install wkhtmltopdf. wkhtmltopdf is a command line utility to convert html to pdf using WebKit. You can download wkhtmltopdf from the linked webpage, or in many Linux distros it can be found in their repositories.

   wkhtmltopdf notebook.html notebook.pdf   
   

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_{Original (now almost obsolete) revision: Convert the IPython notebook file to html.}

^{ipython nbconvert --to html notebook.ipynb}

Answer 3

The simplest way I think is 'Ctrl+P' > save as 'pdf'. That's it.

Answer 4

Also pass the --execute flag to get the output

jupyter nbconvert --execute --to html notebook.ipynb
jupyter nbconvert --execute --to pdf notebook.ipynb

The best practice is to keep the output out of the notebook for version control, see: Using IPython notebooks under version control

But then, if you don't pass --execute, the output won't be present in the HTML, see also: How to run an .ipynb Jupyter Notebook from terminal?

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Tested in Jupyter 4.4.0.

Answer 5

For those who can't install wkhtmltopdf in their systems, one more method other than many already mentioned in the answers to this question is to simply download the file as an html file from the jupyter notebook, upload that to HTML to PDF, and download the converted pdf files from there.

Here you have your IPython notebook(.ipynb) converted to both PDF(.pdf) & HTML(.html) formats.

Answer 6

I find that the easiest method to convert a notebook which is on the web to pdf is to first view it on the web service nbviewer. You can then print it to a pdf file. If the notebook is on your local drive, then upload it to a github repository first and use its url for nbviewer.