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How do i turn a collection of xhtml files into a pdf?

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I ripped a lot of xhtml files from a crappy ebook reader online, how do combine these into a pdf?

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Irelephant@lemm.eeOP
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I made the script to rip them in bash. I know python, lua, js, bash and powershell, anything using these works.

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Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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I’ve used pdfkit to considerable success. It has a few system-level dependencies, but the instructions are pretty straightforward:

# apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
$ pip install pdfkit
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In a production web app I use Gotenberg. It’s definitely overkill for the task at hand, but if you find yourself doing this often I would highly recommend it. It’s dead easy to convert HTML (and I imagine XHTML) to PDF.

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deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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Surely you can figure out how to use existing libraries for this task, or is there something you’re stuck on?

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Irelephant@lemm.eeOP
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Can’t really find many good ones. Google isn’t returning much, just pdfs about python libraries and the odd abandoned github repo

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deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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I’d start with wkhtmltopdf/pdfkit

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