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I am trying to convert a html document that I have created into a pdf using report lab. The html document is below. I am unsure on how to do this and I have looked online and cant seem to find a solution for this.
html document
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Convert to Pdf</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Convert to pdf</h2>
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</body>
</html>
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As you already know how to use ReportLab, I guess that this would do the job : https://github.com/xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf
xhtml2pdf
A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab
Sample code, taken from the Github :
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Copyright 2010 Dirk Holtwick, holtwick.it
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
__version__ = "$Revision: 194 $"
__author__ = "$Author: holtwick $"
__date__ = "$Date: 2008-04-18 18:59:53 +0200 (Fr, 18 Apr 2008) $"
import os
import sys
import cgi
import cStringIO
import logging
import xhtml2pdf.pisa as pisa
# Shortcut for dumping all logs to the screen
pisa.showLogging()
def dumpErrors(pdf, showLog=True):
#if showLog and pdf.log:
# for mode, line, msg, code in pdf.log:
# print "%s in line %d: %s" % (mode, line, msg)
#if pdf.warn:
# print "*** %d WARNINGS OCCURED" % pdf.warn
if pdf.err:
print "*** %d ERRORS OCCURED" % pdf.err
def testSimple(
data="""Hello <b>World</b><br/><img src="img/test.jpg"/>""",
dest="test.pdf"):
"""
Simple test showing how to create a PDF file from
PML Source String. Also shows errors and tries to start
the resulting PDF
"""
pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(
cStringIO.StringIO(data),
file(dest, "wb")
)
if pdf.err:
dumpErrors(pdf)
else:
pisa.startViewer(dest)
def testCGI(data="Hello <b>World</b>"):
"""
This one shows, how to get the resulting PDF as a
file object and then send it to STDOUT
"""
result = cStringIO.StringIO()
pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(
cStringIO.StringIO(data),
result
)
if pdf.err:
print "Content-Type: text/plain"
print
dumpErrors(pdf)
else:
print "Content-Type: application/octet-stream"
print
sys.stdout.write(result.getvalue())
def testBackgroundAndImage(
src="test-background.html",
dest="test-background.pdf"):
"""
Simple test showing how to create a PDF file from
PML Source String. Also shows errors and tries to start
the resulting PDF
"""
pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(
file(src, "r"),
file(dest, "wb"),
log_warn = 1,
log_err = 1,
path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), src)
)
dumpErrors(pdf)
if not pdf.err:
pisa.startViewer(dest)
def testURL(
url="http://www.htmltopdf.org",
dest="test-website.pdf"):
"""
Loading from an URL. We open a file like object for the URL by
using 'urllib'. If there have to be loaded more data from the web,
the pisaLinkLoader helper is passed as 'link_callback'. The
pisaLinkLoader creates temporary files for everything it loads, because
the Reportlab Toolkit needs real filenames for images and stuff. Then
we also pass the url as 'path' for relative path calculations.
"""
import urllib
pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(
urllib.urlopen(url),
file(dest, "wb"),
log_warn = 1,
log_err = 1,
path = url,
link_callback = pisa.pisaLinkLoader(url).getFileName
)
dumpErrors(pdf)
if not pdf.err:
pisa.startViewer(dest)
if __name__=="__main__":
testSimple()
# testCGI()
#testBackgroundAndImage()
#testURL()
Or you can use pdfkit :
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfkit
Before using it you need to install some things :
pip install pdfkit
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
Sample code to generate pdf :
import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_url('http://stackoverflow.com', 'out.pdf')
pdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out2.pdf')
pdfkit.from_string('Thanks for reading!', 'out3.pdf')
If you use django framework you could use django-easy-pdf. I think it's the least painfull way to generate PDF from Html. Here's the template and views of my project:
#Import the easy_pdf rendering
from easy_pdf.rendering import render_to_pdf_response
#Here's the detail view function
def detail_to_pdf(request,id):
template = 'renderdetail.html'
kucing = Kucing.objects.get(id = id)
context = {'kucing' : kucing}
return render_to_pdf_response(request,template,context)
The Template is:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block extra_style %}
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: "Helvetica", "sans-serif";
color: #333333;
}
</style>
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<div id="content">
<div class="main">
<h1>PROFILE : {{ kucing.nama }}- ID:{{ kucing.id }}</h1>
<img src="/media/{{ kucing.foto }}"><br>
<p>Nama : {{ kucing.nama }}</p><br>
<p>Hp : {{ kucing.hp}}</p><br>
<p>Poin : {{ kucing.poin }}</p><br>
<a href="{% url 'kucing_makan' kucing.id %}">Makan</a>
<a href="{% url 'kucing_berburu' kucing.id %}">Berburu</a>
<hr>
<h5><a href="{% url 'kucing_home' %}">Back To Home</a></h5>|
<h5><a href="{% url 'kucing_list' %}">See Another Kucing</a></h5>
</div>
</div>
{% endblock %}You also able to use Class Based Views by overriding PDFTemplateViews. You can see more on the Docs.
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