Weasyprint or Reportlab for generating Django reports on Heroku

Question

Trying to decide on the best route for generating server-side pdf reports within my app currently deployed on Heroku. I've read several posts that say both require installation external libraries- but haven't found anything describing functionality & ease of install on Heroku.

Does anyone here have experience installing either to an app on Heroku? Is it a difficult process- is one easier to setup on Heroku than the other? Or if I am able to install on my local system and run PIP Freeze, will that take care of any installs necessary on Heroku?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Weasyprint needs some dependencies installed, think it's not possible to install it on heroku. I tested it locally and it worked pretty well, after the setup was done, it was easy to feed a nice dynamic html-document and get a solid pdf in return.

heroku offers a web2pdf-addon: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/webtopdf#details

I did not test it yet, but it looks promising.