IPython Jupyter Problems saving notebook as PDF

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So  i ve been trying to save a jupyter notebook as PDF but i just can t figure out how to do this  The first thing i try is from the file menu just download as PDF  but doing that results in   nbconvert failed  PDF creating failed   the next thing i try is try to do the conversion from the Command Prompt like this    ipython nbconvert --to latex --post PDF MyNotebook ipynb    but again  this results in an error message  ImportError  No module named  PDF    and if i try    ipython nbconvert --to latex MyNotebook ipynb    this results in   IPython nbconvert utils pandoc PandocMissing  Pandoc wasn t found  Please check that pandoc is installed   if i try to install pandoc  pip install pandoc   this gives me  ImportError  No module named  ConfigParser    and this is where i get stuck because i just don t know what else to do  Anyone have idea how to fix whatever is wrong

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I am using Anaconda-Jupyter Notebook on OS: Ubuntu 16.0 for Python programming.

Install Nbconvert, Pandoc, and Tex:

Open a terminal and implement the following commands in it.

Install Nbconvert: though it's part of the Jupyter ecosystem still install it once again

$conda install nbconvert

Or

$pip install nbconvert

But I will recommend using conda instead pip if you are using anaconda

Install Pandoc: since Nbconvert uses Pandoc for converting markdown to formats other than HTML. Type following command

$sudo apt-get install pandoc

Install TeX: For converting to PDF, nbconvert uses the TeX. Type following command

$sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex

After execution of these commands, close the opened notebooks refresh the home page Or restart the kernel of the opened notebook. Now try to download notebook as a pdf :)

Note: For more details, please refer the official documentation:
https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

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To convert notebooks to PDF you first need to have nbconvert installed   pip install nbconvert   OR conda install nbconvert   Next  if you aren t using Anaconda or haven t already  you must install pandoc either by following the instructions on their website or  on Linux  as follows   sudo apt-get install pandoc   After that you need to have XeTex installed on your machine    Linux   TeX Live Mac   MacTex Windows   MikTex   You can now navigate to the folder that holds your IPython Notebook and run the following command   jupyter nbconvert --to pdf MyNotebook ipynb   for further reference  please check out this link

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If you are on a Mac and have Homebrew installed  open a terminal shell and install pandoc typing the command  brew install pandoc  be patient  time to install and compile can take a while on slow internet connections or older systems

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I had problems correctly displaying some symbols with regular download as pdf  So downloaded as tex jupyter nbconvert --to latex  my notebook ipynb   made some tweaks with notepad  as an example  in my case I needed these lines for my language   usepackage tgpagella   usepackage lithuanian english  babel      and then exported to pdf with latex --output-format pdf  my notebook tex    But finally  however  to retain the same characters as you see in a browser I ended up using my Chrome browser printing  Ctrl P Print to pdf  It adds unnecessary header and footer but everything else remains as it is  No more errors processing tqdm progress bar  no more code going out of the page and so on  Simple as that

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I had this error in Windows 10  I followed these three steps and it solved my problem    Install nbconvert  pip install nbconvert Install pandoc   https   pandoc org installing html   Install miktex   https   miktex org download    Also it is good to update libraries   pip install jupyter --upgrade pip install --upgrade --user nbconvert

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For Ubuntu users  an answer can be found here  I also quote it      The most probable cause  is that you have not installed the   appropriate dependencies  Your Ubuntu system has to have some packages   installed regarding conversion of LaTeX and XeTeX files  in order to   save your notebook as PDF  You can install them by   sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-xetex texlive-generic-extra texlive-generic-recommended pandoc       Also  nbconvert is another dependency that is usually automatically   installed with jupyter  But you can install it just to be sure  while   having your virtual environment activated   pip install -U nbconvert

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To make it work  I installed latex  typical latex extra  and pandoc   With ubuntu   sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-latex-extra pandoc   it takes some times  several 100 Mb to download  I read somewhere that you can use --no-install-recommends for texlive and extra to reduce to the dl

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In any system  the basic steps to correctly setup nbconvert  to convert ipython notebooks to pdf latex are   Install nbconvert Install pandoc Install Texlive   Installing nbconvert   pip install nbconvert   or conda install nbconvert  Installing pandoc  sudo apt-get install pandoc for Ubuntu  or sudo yum install pandoc for CentOS  for others visit pandoc-installation  Installing texlive  You can install recommended packages or full install  For Ubuntu  sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-xetex texlive-generic-extra texlive-generic-recommended      For others and to full install texlive  follow the instructions given at  tug as per your system and choice   I downloaded tar gz file from  tug-texlive-download and followed instructions given at  TeX Live - Quick install  Installation instructions in  summary    Clean up  rm -rf  usr local texlive 2019  rm -rf    texlive2019 Run installer  unpack the zip file  cd  your unpacked directory  perl install-tl  Enter command  i Setting path  sudo vi  etc bash bashrc and insert  PATH  usr local texlive 2019 bin x86 64-linux  PATH  export PATH  MANPATH  usr local texlive 2019 texmf-dist doc man  MANPATH  export MANPATH  INFOPATH  usr local texlive 2019 texmf-dist doc info  INFOPATH  export INFOPATH Setting default papersize  tlmgr paper letter   The commands may differ as per your system but the basic steps remains the same

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notebook-as-pdfInstall python -m pip install notebook-as-pdf pyppeteer-install Use it You can also use it with nbconvert  jupyter-nbconvert --to PDFviaHTML filename ipynb which will create a file called filename pdf  or pip install notebook-as-pdf create pdf from notebook jupyter-nbconvert-toPDFviaHTML

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This Python script has GUI to select with explorer a Ipython Notebook you want to convert to pdf  The approach with wkhtmltopdf is the only approach I found works well and provides high quality pdfs  Other approaches described here are problematic  syntax highlighting does not work or graphs are messed up   You ll need to install wkhtmltopdf   http   wkhtmltopdf org downloads html  and  Nbconvert  pip install nbconvert   OR conda install nbconvert   Python script    Script adapted from CloudCray   Original Source  https   gist github com CloudCray 994dd361dece0463f64a   2016--06-29   This will create both an HTML and a PDF file  import subprocess import os from Tkinter import Tk from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename  WKHTMLTOPDF PATH    C  Program Files wkhtmltopdf bin wkhtmltopdf     or wherever you keep it  def export to html filename       cmd    ipython nbconvert --to html   0        subprocess call cmd format filename   shell True      return filename replace   ipynb     html     def convert to pdf filename       cmd      0     1     2    format WKHTMLTOPDF PATH  filename  filename replace   html     pdf        subprocess call cmd  shell True      return filename replace   html     pdf     def export to pdf filename       fn   export to html filename      return convert to pdf fn   def main        print  Export IPython notebook to PDF       print      Please select a notebook         Tk   withdraw     Starts in folder from which it is started  keep the root window from appearing      x   askopenfilename     show an  Open  dialog box and return the path to the selected file     x   str x split      -1        print x       if not x          print  No notebook selected            return 0     else          fn   export to pdf x          print  File exported as  n t 0   format fn           return 1  main

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For converting any Jupyter notebook to PDF  please follow the below instructions    Be inside Jupyter notebook    On Mac OS   command   P --  you will get a print dialog box --  change destination as PDF --  Click print  On Windows   Ctrl   P --  you will get a print dialog box --  change destination as PDF --  Click print  If the above steps doesn t generate full PDF of the Jupyter notebook  probably because Chrome  some times  don t print all the outputs because Jupyter make a scroll for big outputs     Try performing below steps for removing the auto scroll in the menu -  Credits     ngeloPolotto   In your Jupyter Notebook  click Cell on top of the jupyter notebook  Next click All output --  Toggle scrolling for removing auto scroll

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As the comments to the question say  you will need pandoc and latex  e g  TeXShop    I installed pandoc with Homebrew  it took just a second   Having pandoc and TeXShop  I could generate latex but not pdf  on the command line      ipython nbconvert --to latex mynotebook ipynb   Exploring the latex   tex  file with TeXShop  the failure was due to missing stylesheets and defs   After installing all of these  adjustbox sty  adjcalc sty  trimclip sty  collectbox sty  tc-pgf def  ucs sty  uni-global def  utf8x def  ucsencs def   it did finally work   However  the result looks a little too funky for my taste   It is too bad that printing the html from Safari loses the syntax coloring   Otherwise  it doesn t look so bad    This is all on OS X

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If you are using sagemath cloud version  you can simply go to the left corner   select File --  Download as --  Pdf via LaTeX   pdf  Check the screenshot if you want    Screenshot Convert ipynb to pdf  If it dosn t work for any reason  you can try another way   select File --  Print Preview and then on the preview  right click --  Print and then select save as pdf

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This problem was experienced with both Ubuntu and Mac OSX  After a frantic set of searches and trials  both of them were solved  This requires both tex and pandoc  both jumbo external programs cannot installed by Python s pip   Mac OSX  using MacPorts installation of pandoc port install pandoc  This should take nearly an hour to complete  in the usual case   If the problem persists  you might have to install MacTeX distro  of TeXLive   For Ubuntu  install vanilla TeXLive from the network installer -- not through apt-get  Then install pandoc using apt-get  sudo apt-get install pandoc  A complete installation of TeXLive would require a upto to 4 4 GB on disk  To save all this trouble  the recommeded way to use IPython Jupyter Notebook would be to install Anaconda Python distribution

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I had all kinds of problems figuring this out as well  I don t know if it will provide exactly what you need  but I downloaded my notebook as an HTML file  then pulled it up in my Chrome browser  and then printed it as a PDF file  which I saved  It captured all my code  text and graphs  It was good enough for what I needed

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2015-4-22  It looks like an IPython update means that --to pdf should be used instead of --to latex --post PDF  There is a related Github issue

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To convert  ipynb into pdf  your system should contain 2 components    nbconvert  Is part of jupyter allows to convert ipynb to pdf   pip install nbconvert OR  conda install nbconvert   XeTeX  Convert ipynb to  tex format and then converting to pdf    sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex     Then you can use below command to convert to pdf    ipython nbconvert --to pdf YOURNOTEBOOK ipynb    In case  it doesn t work  install pandoc and try again    sudo apt-get install pandoc

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As a brand new member  I was unable to simply add a comment on the post but I want to second that the solution offered by Phillip Schwartz worked for me  Hopefully people in a similar situation will try that path sooner with the emphasis  Not having page breaks was a frustrating problem for quite a while so I am grateful for the discussion above    As Phillip Schwartz said   You ll need to install wkhtmltopdf   http   wkhtmltopdf org downloads html  1   and Nbconvert    You then add a cell of the type  rawNBConvert  and include    lt p style  page-break-after always   gt  lt  p gt   That seemed to do the trick for me  and the generated PDF had the page break at the corresponding locations  You don t need to run the custom code though  as it seems the  normal  path of downloading the notebook as HTML  opening in browser  and printing to PDF works once those utilities are installed

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What I found was that the nbconvert utils pandoc py had a code bug that resulted in the error for my machine  The code checks if pandoc is in your environmental variables path  For my machine the answer is no  However pandoc exe is   Solution was to add   exe  to the code on line 69  if   version is None      if not which  pandoc exe            raise PandocMissing     The same goes for  xelatex  is not installed  Add to the file nbconvert exporters pdf py on line 94      cmd   which command list 0    exe

[pdf] IPython/Jupyter Problems saving notebook as PDF

Install Nbconvert, Pandoc, and Tex:

Install Nbconvert: though it's part of the Jupyter ecosystem still install it once again

Install Pandoc: since Nbconvert uses Pandoc for converting markdown to formats other than HTML. Type following command

Install TeX: For converting to PDF, nbconvert uses the TeX. Type following command

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