@Mart 1) You need to install a TeX distribution, TeX Live is probably the most complete: http://tug.org/texlive/
2010/10/3 mart <[email protected]>: > Ok, 'm really liking this! a few questions: > > > 1) I'm not catching on where we get pdflatex... is it a plugin? where > do we get it? > > > 2) Is this a feature that can be add to an up for users? meanin > something like "upload your document - then download your pdf (or > email generated pdf")? should be doable? > > > 3) I used reportlab for drawing fingerboard templates for kids > learning the violin (which I got some nasty email from some template > maker/vendor, so now I really want to put this out there - its just > number crunching so it should be a crome to sell numbers to kids ;) ) > Is here a way to make use of those drawing capabilities? simple: draw > lines @ coordinates? > > > 4) scaling: is there a way to control that at this end? (for printing > purposes - scaling needs to be disabled) > > > thanks :) > > > On Oct 3, 12:28 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> >>
