Google Colab - Exporting to a PDF Format!

Brief tutorial on exporting a Google Colab Notebook to a PDF File using nbconvert. The video goes through two methods: exporting to HTML then to PDF format and exporting directly to PDF format. The code for each can be found below.

Method 1:
!jupyter nbconvert --to html /content/KNN.ipynb

Method 2:
!sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-plain-generic
!jupyter nbconvert --to pdf /content/KNN.ipynb

The notebook can be found in the "Google Colab Tutorials" folder within the below repo.

CONNECT:

|-Video Chapters-|
0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Issue with printing notebook to PDF
0:46 - nbconvert package
1:07 - Uploading file to content folder
1:24 - Method 1: Converting the notebook to HTML then printing to PDF format
3:31 - Method 2: Directly converting the notebook to PDF format
5:33 - References

[sbzguadafoc]

This is absolutely great! You started off by addressing the number 1 problem in printing directly from Colab. You helped me a lot! Thank you Adrian

[lowpompuli]

This is probably one of the best videos on Youtube!

[peytonpolitewicz]

Thanks for such a helpful and comprehensive walkthrough!

[AdityaGupta-wtsm]

😄thanks dude, I was trying to create it pdf but was just getting a pdf in black and white, now I can make pdf in a great coloured quality....🙏

[KarmaTrain]

Amazing!! Thank you! The second method worked for me, to convert Colab notebooks to PDFs. Finally..

[blenklofman]

Adrian Dolinay is the best Python channel on YouTube

[spencerhalverson]

This is so awesome. I wish I had learned this years ago!

[novadwilestari]

this tutorial really helped me, thank you!

[njerimuchiri]

How are you dragging and dropping the file?

[ajitjadhav]

my plotly visuals are not visible in the pdf, what can be the reason for this?

[menkiguo]

This is amazing!!! My TA told me just print it which mess all my graphs

[ravinathaariyarathna]

Thanks a lot. This is was very useful for my to submit my assignment.

[MrJdubs]

Just what I was looking for - thanks so much!

[Razer]

Hey there, thanks for the video!

In case someone is interested how to refer directly to a file residing on Google Drive, here is the command:

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('./mount')

!jupyter nbconvert --to html 'mount/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/NameOfFile.ipynb'

[sirginirgin]

Many thanks, Adrian. I really appreciate your explanation.

[camilacoutodacosta]

Excelent! That was very helpful to me.

[evanmhowington]

Thanks. Pycharm Professional makes it difficult to extract pdfs of jupyter notebook. I don't want to have to go back and forth to colab just to generate pdfs. I used the HTML method you described in this video and it worked perfectly. Thanks!

[MrKiranmehta]

Thanks!

This got rid of multiple issues for me when printing directly from Colab.
- output cells with scroll bar get truncated.
- missing pages/charts for long notebooks

[shahrizal]

Thanks for sharing... This was usefull for my project idea... Thanks a lot

[datayogi_]

Hi Adrian, I have some visuals also in my python file and they are excluded in the pdf while converting by the second method. Any possible way to add visuals also in PDF?