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		albert_e on July 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to cr... If we don't need the UX but need to call this functionality programmatically-- to generate PDF account statements / invoices, optionally after showing a preview as a web page -- is there a good open source solution already available that we can integrate into our app.

cuu508 on July 25, 2023 [–]

For Python there is Weasyprint: you prepare the invoice as an HTML document, and Weasyprint turns it into a PDF

https://weasyprint.org/

albert_e on July 25, 2023 | [–]

Thank you!

HTML Jinja templates seem to be fairly standard in this space.

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