Google Colab - Exporting to a PDF Format!

January 19, 2023

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.
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|-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…(read more)

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24 thoughts on “Google Colab – Exporting to a PDF Format!”

Thank you! It's helpful!

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?

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thank you

This is probably one of the best videos on Youtube!

Just what I was looking for – thanks so much!

Nice! Thank you!

Is there any possibility to convert it to epub format? Thank you for sharing.

HOW CAN I DO THIS

it's so usefull

this tutorial really helped me, thank you!

I tried to follow all the steps, and it says nbconvert command is not found in my Google Colab

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

Thanks Adrian, but I am having some issues with Plotly graphs. Matplotlib ones are fine, but Plotly ones are not showing up in HTML.

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

Great content. Any way to print without the code cells?

Thank you! It works very well. I was wondering if there's a way we can add the author and change the title or the date? I'm planning to submit my assignment using this method. So, if I can customize the title, it would be perfect.