Creating a PDF file generator

Using Streamlit
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@ash2shukla please can you help me save a dataframe to pdf using streamlit I really need it

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Thank you for your answer I will look to it

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Looks like fpdf doesn’t work for Python 3.6 and later. Any other solution?

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@ash2shukla Is streamlit dev community thinking of adding the functionality to directly export streamlit app page to pdf without the need to individually add elements? I and many others won’t agree much to “Though streamlit doesnt support PDF generation out of the box for obvious reasons”

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I agree Sharman - there was a thread I’d started on this a year or two ago; it’s easy to ‘print’ as PDF from a local deployment but on streamlit sharing that functionality does not work. It would be excellent to be able to output the currents streamlit app to a PDF using a button.

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Hi,

i am trying to use proposed solution, however am getting and encoding error:

AttributeError: ‘bytearray’ object has no attribute ‘encode’

Traceback:

File "D:\Coding\HockeyPlatform\hockeyEnv\lib\site-packages\streamlit\runtime\scriptrunner\script_runner.py", line 556, in _run_script
    exec(code, module.__dict__)File "D:\Coding\HockeyPlatform\pages\5_Prints.py", line 46, in <module>
    html = create_download_link(pdf.output(dest="S").encode("latin-1"), "test")

the code I am using:

def create_download_link(val, filename):
b64 = base64.b64encode(val) # val looks like b’…’
return f’<a href=“data:application/octet-stream;base64,{b64.decode()}” ’
f’download=“{filename}.pdf”>Download PDF’

  if export_as_pdf:
      pdf = PdfReportGenerator(game_name='testGame')
      pdf.set_font("courier", size=12)
      pdf.add_page()
      pdf.cell(200, 10, txt="Welcome to Python!", ln=1, align="C")
      html = create_download_link(pdf.output(dest="S").encode("latin-1"), "test")
      st.markdown(html, unsafe_allow_html=True)

any help would be appreciated

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Hello is there a way to download the whole streamlit page as pdf?

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you can use “print” option in the top right menu bar. and “save as pdf”.

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Alternatively, you can use any chrome extension that can take a page screenshot and save as pdf. I have used GoFullPage.

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replace html = create_download_link(pdf.output(dest="S").encode("latin-1"), "test")
with html = create_download_link(pdf.output(dest="S"), "test")