got the html export into file working with code bellow:
# write view html into file
conf, po, skus = get_data(65) # test data
view_template = os.path.join(request.folder, 'views/default',
'print_proforma_invoice.html')
html = response.render(view_template, dict(conf=conf, po=po, skus=skus))
filename="test-dec-pdf-po-28.html" # test output file name
open(filename,'wb').write(response.render(view_template,
dict(conf=conf, po=po, skus=skus)))
but it seems the PDF part creation triggered an error while rendering CSS
in pyfpdf/html.py. (100px was a width of an image, specified in css)
If it's of any value to anyone, here is a trackback bellow:
<type 'exceptions.ValueError'> invalid literal for int() with base 10:
'100px'
traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch/gluon/restricted.py", line 204, in
restricted
exec ccode in environment
File
"/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch/applications/Wholesale/controllers/default.py"
<http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/Wholesale/controllers/default.py>,
line 596, in <module>
File "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch/gluon/globals.py", line 172, in <lambda>
self._caller = lambda f: f()
File
"/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch/applications/Wholesale/controllers/default.py"
<http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/Wholesale/controllers/default.py>,
line 580, in myreport
pdf.write_html(html)
File "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch/gluon/contrib/pyfpdf/html.py", line 388,
in write_html
h2p.feed(text)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py",
line 108, in feed
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py",
line 148, in goahead
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py",
line 269, in parse_starttag
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py",
line 325, in handle_startendtag
File "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch/gluon/contrib/pyfpdf/html.py", line 257,
in handle_starttag
w = px2mm(attrs.get('width', 0))
File "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch/gluon/contrib/pyfpdf/html.py", line 17,
in px2mm
return int(px)*25.4/72.0
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '100px'
