Saving Pandas DataFrame into PDF File format without pdfkit

Question

I want to save a pandas dataframe into pdf format.

import pdfkit as pdf    
config = pdf.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=\"C:\\Program Files\\wkhtmltopdin\\wkhtmlt         


        

Answer 1

Have you considered drawing a Matplotlib Table, then exporting the Table Figure?

import matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

d = {'x{}'.format(i): range(30) for i in range(10)}

table = pd.DataFrame(d)

fig = plt.figure()

ax=fig.add_subplot(111)

cell_text = []
for row in range(len(table)):
    cell_text.append(table.iloc[row])

ax.table(cellText=cell_text, colLabels=table.columns, loc='center')
ax.axis('off')

pdf = matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf.PdfPages("output.pdf")
pdf.savefig(fig)
pdf.close()

I found this was simple, highly customizable and OS-independent (as far as I know). I was able to implement this on a client's server without downloading any additional packages.

Answer 2

One option is to start with:

df.to_html()

and then use QT to convert the HTML to PDF as follows:

from PyQt4.QtGui import QTextDocument, QPrinter, QApplication

import sys
app = QApplication(sys.argv)

doc = QTextDocument()
location = "c://apython//Jim//html//notes.html"
html = open(location).read()
doc.setHtml(html)

printer = QPrinter()
printer.setOutputFileName("foo.pdf")
printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter.PdfFormat)
printer.setPageSize(QPrinter.A4)
printer.setPageMargins(15, 15, 15, 15, QPrinter.Millimeter)

doc.print_(printer)
print("done!")

I obtained the second bit of code from html to pdf, and tested on Mac OSX with positive results.