How to add Page Border using pylatex?

Question

I am using pylatex in python to generate PDFs. I want to add a Page border in the generated PDF but I am not able to do so. I didn't found any reference for adding border in the pylatex documentation. Is there any way that can work? Here are the geometry options for Document class:

geometry_options = {
    "head": "40pt",
    "margin": "0.5in",
    "bottom": "0.6in",
    "includeheadfoot": True
}
doc = Document(geometry_options=geometry_options)

Let me know if you need more details.

What kind of page border do you want? Like just a line around the page? — Grace O'Halloran, Mar 20 '18 at 09:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '18 at 07:01

Sorry, I have posted this questions and now after some research I found its solution too.

There are many packages to add page border in a latex document using various packages.

Following are the steps that one can follow:

Identify the package you want to use for your latex document.The one I used is memoir class and especially its showtrims function.
After deciding the desired package, you can use NoEscape() function to execute raw latex commands in python.For example, NoEscape(r'\trimFrame')
The last step will be to append this object returned by NoEscape() to the doc class.

Here is a code snippet- (Hope it helps!!)

doc = Document(documentclass='memoir',document_options=['10pt','a4paper','showtrims'],
                            geometry_options=geometry_options, lmodern = True)

new_comm1 = NoEscape(r'\trimFrame')
doc.append(new_comm1)
new_comm2 = NoEscape(r'\settrimmedsize{286mm}{198mm}{*}')
doc.append(new_comm2)
new_comm3 = NoEscape(r'\settrims{6mm}{6mm}')
doc.append(new_comm3)

How to add Page Border using pylatex?

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