On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:10 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am sure this can also be done and better with pyfpdf but I have not
> tried. Perhaps Mariano can help us
Having latest web2py versions (including pyfpdf), write in a views/generic.pdf:
---- begin file ----
{{
from gluon.contrib.pyfpdf import FPDF, HTMLMixin
from gluon.sanitizer import sanitize
class MyFPDF(FPDF, HTMLMixin):
pass
pdf=MyFPDF()
pdf.add_page()
html=response.render('%s/%s.html' %
(request.controller,request.function))
html = sanitize(html, escape=False)
pdf.write_html(html)
response.headers['Content-Type']='application/pdf'
response.write(pdf.output(dest='S'), escape=False)
}}
---- end file---
At MyFPDF class you can add headers and footers.
The sanitize part is to strip some HTML tags that cannot be rendered
(ie. javascript).
As some DIVs contents and similar may still pass (like menus), a
better alternative may be render only certains portions of the page in
a custom view:
pdf.write_html(str(XML(CENTER(section), sanitize=False)))
Best regards,
Mariano Reingart
http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
http://reingart.blogspot.com
