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December 19, 2016 16:07
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Simplest way to generate PDF with Weasyprint (http://weasyprint.readthedocs.io) and a Web Framework. I use Django, but it can be surely used with others + jinja for templating. First, render an HTML page as string, then generate the pdf and serve it as response.
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| from weasyprint import HTML | |
| response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/pdf') | |
| response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="your_pdf.pdf"' | |
| html_out = str(render(request,"mock_page.html",locals())) | |
| html_out = html_out.replace('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8','') | |
| # base_url is used to locate the CSS file | |
| HTML(string=html_out,base_url = request.build_absolute_uri()).write_pdf(response) | |
| return response |
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