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html to pdf for a Django site

Answer 1

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Try the command line print firefox extension.

Martin v. Löwis 2009-09-04 06:02:11

the issue is not all my clients will be using firefox, also I won't be able to force them to use extension.

2009-09-04 06:46:21

I did not suggest to run this on the client, but on the server.

Martin v. Löwis 2009-09-04 11:56:25

Answer 2

+2 A:

Django documentation is deep and covers a lot. Did you have any problems with the method suggested there?

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/outputting-pdf/

monkut 2009-09-04 06:50:54

This doesn't actually answer the question. That documentation is on how to render a PDF natively, not from rendered HTML.

Josh 2010-06-29 20:47:17

Answer 3

+18 A:

Try the solution from Reportlab.

Download it and install it as usual with python setup.py install

You will also need to install the following modules: pisa, html5lib, pypdf with easy_install.

Here is an usage example:

First define this function:

import cStringIO as StringIO
import ho.pisa as pisa
from django.template.loader import get_template
from django.template import Context
from django.http import HttpResponse
from cgi import escape


def render_to_pdf(template_src, context_dict):
    template = get_template(template_src)
    context = Context(context_dict)
    html  = template.render(context)
    result = StringIO.StringIO()

    pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(StringIO.StringIO(html.encode("ISO-8859-1")), result)
    if not pdf.err:
        return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), mimetype='application/pdf')
    return HttpResponse('We had some errors<pre>%s</pre>' % escape(html))

Then you can use it like this:

def myview(request):
    #Retrieve data or whatever you need
    return render_to_pdf(
            'mytemplate.html',
            {
                'pagesize':'A4',
                'mylist': results,
            }
        )

The template:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
<html>
    <head>
        <title>My Title</title>
        <style type="text/css">
            @page {
                size: {{ pagesize }};
                margin: 1cm;
                @frame footer {
                    -pdf-frame-content: footerContent;
                    bottom: 0cm;
                    margin-left: 9cm;
                    margin-right: 9cm;
                    height: 1cm;
                }
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div>
            {% for item in mylist %}
                RENDER MY CONTENT
            {% endfor %}
        </div>
        <div id="footerContent">
            {%block page_foot%}
                Page <pdf:pagenumber>
            {%endblock%}
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Hope it helps.

Guillem Gelabert 2009-09-04 07:12:50

wow great answer, thanks alot Guillem!

2009-09-04 07:51:39

+1 I've been using this solution for a year and its great. PISA can even create barcodes with a simple tag, plus much more. And its *easy*.

arcanum 2009-09-04 10:15:00

Answer 4

A:

thanks Guillem - works very nicely!

radovan 2010-10-22 10:51:40

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