PDF generation using easy pdf

 

PDF generation using easy pdf

Easy pdf is a pdf rendering django package. You can install it with the following command:

$ pip install django-easy-pdf
$ pip install "xhtml2pdf>=0.0.6" "reportlab>=2.7,<3"
 

Easy pdf documentation can be found here

Now in your views.py file:

import easy_pdf
from easy_pdf.views import PDFTemplateView 



class MyView(PDFTemplateView):
     template_name = "converter.html"
     pdf_filename = "Output.pdf"


    def post(self, request, args, kwargs):
          objects = MyReport.objects.all()           
          context = { 'objects'  : objects}
          return  easy_pdf.rendering.render_to_pdf_response(request,  self.template_name, context, filename='Output.pdf', encoding=u'utf-8', **kwargs)

Now in urls.py :

from app.views import MyView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^convert/$', MyView.as_view(), name="convert2pdf"),
      
)

Finally call the 'convert' url to obtain the pdf document.