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sphinx + rst2pdf error: unexpected keyword argument 'ts'

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Error while trying to generate the pdf with rst2pdf

Problem

I was using sphinx and rst2pdf without any problems but the issue occured today upon a fresh installation on another PC. I’m no longer able to generate the documentation in pdf format. The only difference between my configuration and the new one is the sphinx version: I have v1.7.4 while the new pc has v.1.7.6 (installed by default with pip install command).

Procedure to reproduce the problem

sphinx-build -b pdf source build/pdf

Error logs / results

writing MyDocsTryOut... [ERROR] pdfbuilder.py:130 __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'ts'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\rst2pdf\pdfbuilder.py", line 127, in write
    docwriter.write(doctree, destination)
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\docutils\writers\__init__.py", line 80, in write
    self.translate()
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\rst2pdf\pdfbuilder.py", line 621, in translate
    compressed=self.compressed)
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\rst2pdf\createpdf.py", line 653, in createPdf
    pdfdoc.multiBuild(elements)
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", line 1135, in multiBuild
    self.canv.save()
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfgen\canvas.py", line 1240, in save
    self._doc.SaveToFile(self._filename, self)
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 215, in SaveToFile
    data = self.GetPDFData(canvas)
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 241, in GetPDFData
    return self.format()
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 418, in format
    IOf = IO.format(self)
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 866, in format
    fcontent = format(self.content, document, toplevel=1)   # yes this is at top level
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 80, in format
    f = element.format(document)
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 1546, in format
    D['ModDate'] = D["CreationDate"] = PDFDate(ts=document._timeStamp,dateFormatter=self._dateFormatter)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'ts'

Environment info

OS: Windows 10
Python version: 2.7.15
Sphinx version: 1.7.6

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State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

benjdj6commented, Aug 8, 2018

Hey @Tok3nizer, I have found a workaround solution. Remove the ts= in line 1546 in pdfdoc.py. The path to the file is printed in the last line of the trace. rst2pdf should be patched to handle the keyword arguments used by reportlab. Unfortunately I’m not knowledgeable enough myself to do so.

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1-riverfishcommented, Dec 23, 2018

I have solved this issue, refer this link https://github.com/rst2pdf/rst2pdf/commit/14668d34523e21faf21ba6bca20e623aa3c33de6.

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