or better
{{
import re
from gluon.contrib.markmin.markmin2pdf import markmin2pdf
def markmin_serializer(text,tag=None,attr={}):
if tag==None: return re.sub('\s+',' ',text)
if tag=='br': return '\n\n'
if tag=='h1': return '# '+text+'\n\n'
if tag=='h2': return '#'*2+' '+text+'\n\n'
if tag=='h3': return '#'*3+' '+text+'\n\n'
if tag=='h4': return '#'*4+' '+text+'\n\n'
if tag=='p': return text+'\n\n'
if tag=='li': return '\n- '+text.replace('\n',' ')
if tag=='tr': return text[3:].replace('\n',' ')+'\n'
if tag in ['table','blockquote']: return '\n-----\n'+text+'\n------
\n'
if tag in ['td','th']: return ' | '+text
if tag in ['b','strong','label']: return '**%s**' % text
if tag in ['em','i']: return "''%s''" % text
if tag in ['tt','code']: return '``%s``' % text
if tag=='a': return '[[%s %s]]' % (text,attr.get('_href',''))
return text
html=response.render('%s/%s.html' %
(request.controller,request.function))
markmin=TAG(html).element('#content').flatten(markmin_serializer)
pdf,warnings,errors=markmin2pdf(markmin)
if errors:
response.headers['Content-Type']='text'
response.write(HTML(BODY(H1('errors'),LU(*errors),H1('warnings'),LU(*warnings))))
else:
response.headers['Content-Type']='application/pdf'
response.write(pdf,escape=False)
pass
}}
On Oct 2, 11:10 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> install pdflatex
>
> create a views/generic.pdf that contains:
>
> ---- begin file ----
> {{
> import re
> from gluon.contrib.markmin.markmin2pdf import markmin2pdf
> def markmin_serializer(text,tag=None,attr={}):
> if tag==None: return re.sub('\s+',' ',text)
> if tag=='br': return '\n\n'
> if tag=='h1': return '# '+text+'\n\n'
> if tag=='h2': return '#'*2+' '+text+'\n\n'
> if tag=='h3': return '#'*3+' '+text+'\n\n'
> if tag=='h4': return '#'*4+' '+text+'\n\n'
> if tag=='li': return '\n- '+text.replace('\n',' ')
> if tag=='table': return '\n-----\n'+text+'\n------\n'
> if tag=='tr': return text[3:].replace('\n',' ')+'\n'
> if tag=='td': return ' | '+text
> if tag=='p': return text+'\n\n'
> if tag=='b' or tag=='strong': return '**%s**' % text
> if tag=='em' or tag=='i': return "''%s''" % text
> if tag=='tt' or tag=='code': return '``%s``' % text
> if tag=='a': return '[[%s %s]]' % (text,attr.get('_href',''))
> return text
> html=response.render('%s/%s.html' %
> (request.controller,request.function))
> markmin=TAG(html).element('#content').flatten(markmin_serializer)
> response.write(markmin2pdf(markmin)[0],escape=False)
> response.headers['content-type']='text'}}
>
> ---- end file---
>
> Now you should be able to view any web2py page with .pdf in pdf.
>
> I am sure this can also be done and better with pyfpdf but I have not
> tried. Perhaps Mariano can help us
