PDF Downloads

[TheOnlyWayUp]

PDF Downloads would be great.

References:

• Archive-WP/WattpadScrape - scrape.py

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[TheOnlyWayUp]

016ad62 (private) implements PDF Downloads with wkhtmltopdf and pdfkit. It took a lot of time and effort, and it works well.

Unfortunately, wkhtmltopdf is EOL and is riddled with vulnerabilities - it's a great library for rendering trusted HTML, but that's not applicable here. Also, I can't help but feel excited looking at Weasyprint's samples lol - Preview Book.pdf.

Relevant: wkhtmltopdf recommendations

[AaronBenDaniel]

As of writing this, the Dockerfile in feature/#29-pdf-downloads is broken. The container builds with a missing library that results in the following output when being run.

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WeasyPrint could not import some external libraries. Please carefully follow the installation steps before reporting an issue:
https://doc.courtbouillon.org/weasyprint/stable/first_steps.html#installation
https://doc.courtbouillon.org/weasyprint/stable/first_steps.html#troubleshooting 

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/src/main.py", line 18, in <module>
    from create_book import (
  File "/app/src/create_book.py", line 14, in <module>
    from weasyprint import HTML, CSS, default_url_fetcher
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/weasyprint/__init__.py", line 425, in <module>
    from .css import preprocess_stylesheet  # noqa: I001, E402
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/weasyprint/css/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
    from .computed_values import COMPUTER_FUNCTIONS
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/weasyprint/css/computed_values.py", line 9, in <module>
    from ..text.ffi import FROM_UNITS, ffi, pango
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/weasyprint/text/ffi.py", line 447, in <module>
    pango = _dlopen(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/weasyprint/text/ffi.py", line 432, in _dlopen
    return ffi.dlopen(names[0], flags)  # pragma: no cover
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cffi/api.py", line 150, in dlopen
    lib, function_cache = _make_ffi_library(self, name, flags)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cffi/api.py", line 834, in _make_ffi_library
    backendlib = _load_backend_lib(backend, libname, flags)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cffi/api.py", line 829, in _load_backend_lib
    raise OSError(msg)
OSError: cannot load library 'libpango-1.0-0': libpango-1.0-0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.  Additionally, ctypes.util.find_library() did not manage to locate a library called 'libpango-1.0-0'

was not sure if this should be it's own issue or not

[AaronBenDaniel]

See #33 for proposed fix