How can I convert a HTML Page to PDF using Django

Question

I have a web app in Django. It's a plataform to store bills and invoices. Now i'm trying to export those bills un PDF.

I'm using xhtml2pdf but it's not working.

I'm using this code for testing: http://obroll.com/generate-pdf-with-xhtml2pdf-pisa-in-django-examples/

It doesnt give any errors but doesnt generate the PDF documentos.

Answer 1

Try using this code. It works for me. Change "template_testing.html" for your template and add your data to render on "data = {}"

views.py:

import os
from django.conf import settings
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import Context
from django.template.loader import get_template
import datetime
from xhtml2pdf import pisa 


def generate_PDF(request):
    data = {}

    template = get_template('template_testing.html')
    html  = template.render(Context(data))

    file = open('test.pdf', "w+b")
    pisaStatus = pisa.CreatePDF(html.encode('utf-8'), dest=file,
            encoding='utf-8')

    file.seek(0)
    pdf = file.read()
    file.close()            
    return HttpResponse(pdf, 'application/pdf')