Python - Converting XLSX to PDF

Question

I have always used win32com module in my development server to easily convert from xlsx to pdf:

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Answer 1

Edit: Thanks for the down vote but this is a far more efficient method than trying to load a redundant script that is hard to find and was wrttien in Python 2.7.

1. Load excel spread sheet into a DataFrame
2. Write the DataFrame to a HTML file
3. Convert the html file to an image.

    dirname, fname = os.path.split(source)
    basename = os.path.basename(fname)

    data = pd.read_excel(source).head(6)

    css = """

    """

    text_file = open(f"{basename}.html", "w")
    # write the CSS
    text_file.write(css)
    # write the HTML-ized Pandas DataFrame
    text_file.write(data.to_html())
    text_file.close()

    imgkitoptions = {"format": "jpg"}

    imgkit.from_file(f"{basename}.html", f'{basename}.png', options=imgkitoptions)

    try:
        os.remove(f'{basename}.html')
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

    return send_from_directory('./', f'{basename}.png')

Taken from here https://medium.com/@andy.lane/convert-pandas-dataframes-to-images-using-imgkit-5da7e5108d55

Works really well, I have XLSX files converting on the fly and displaying as image thumbnails on my application.