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Going Further
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Why pydyf?
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pydyf has been created to replace Cairo PDF generation in WeasyPrint_.
Indeed, there are some bugs in WeasyPrint caused by Cairo_ and Cairo has some
difficulties to make releases.
Also there are features which will be easier to implement while having more
control on the PDF generation.
So we created pydyf.
.. _WeasyPrint: https://www.courtbouillon.org/weasyprint
.. _Cairo: https://www.cairographics.org/
Why Python?
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Python is a really good language to design a small, OS-agnostic parser. As it
is object-oriented, it gives the possibility to follow the specification with
high-level classes and a small amount of very simple code.
And of course, WeasyPrint is written in Python too, giving an obvious reason
for this choice.
Speed is not pydyf’s main goal. Code simplicity, maintainability and
flexibility are more important goals for this library, as they give the
ability to stay really close to the specification and to fix bugs easily.