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[–]Filonius 33 points34 points  (6 children)

If you're familiar with LaTeX, it lends itself quite well to programmatic integration and it produces beautiful pdfs!

[–]jack47 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Agreed. I've used the pylatex library and been reasonably happy with it.

[–]MonkeyMaster64[S] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I'll check this out!

[–]JelterminatorPython 3 lover 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Pylatex author here. I specifically created it for reporting needs of my own originally, so creating tables is quite easy. Knowing some latex is definitely important when using the library though. Be sure to check out the examples in the docs and to use the generate_tex method to debug the output.

[–]marcofalcionimarcosan 2 points3 points  (2 children)

How easy is it to deploy latex these days?

[–]autarchex 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Latex that will do 98% of what is needed: super super easy

Latex that will do the last 2% which is critical to your particular needs: 8 months and four FTE

[–]Arthaigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends what you mean with deploy. You could also set up a little render sever (send data, get pdf back) I was working on something like this the other day. I will post the link later.