response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=tuto1.pdf'
On Sunday, 18 November 2012 20:32:29 UTC-6, Paul Rykiel wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am new to Web2py and I am trying to create PDF's.
> The following example code works great and I believe it will work for my
> project; however, instead of the output going to the screen I would like it
> to download to a directory ... what do i need to do to make this happen.
> Thank you in advance for any assistance that you may offer.
>
> Regards,
>
> from gluon.contrib.fpdf import FPDF
> def pdfexp():
> example = "this is an example"
> example2 = "this is example 2"
> pdf=FPDF()
> pdf.add_page()
> pdf.set_font('Arial','B',16)
> pdf.cell(40,10, example)
> pdf.add_page()
> pdf.set_font('Arial','B',16)
> pdf.cell(40,10, example2)
> pdf.output('tuto1.pdf','F')
> return response.stream(open('tuto1.pdf'))
>
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