Report Renderer

This is a simple script to convert an XML report to a PDF document.

Installation

This script needs WeasyPrint to be in the PATH to produce the final PDF document.

First install WeasyPrint's dependencies (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python-lxml libcairo2 libpango1.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libffi-dev shared-mime-info

then install WeasyPrint itself: pip install weasyprint

See WeasyPrint's installation instructions for installing WeasyPrint on other platforms.

Use bundler:

gem install bundler
bundle install

bundle exec ./render input.xml ouput.pdf

You can customize the output by modifying the slim templates and CSS files under /templates. It's all HTML!

Get the intermediary HTML at ./templates/out.html by setting the DEBUG environment variable:

DEBUG=1 bundle exec ./render input.xml ouput.pdf