Attention

This is a fork of the https://github.com/xhtml2pdf/django-xhtml2pdf project.

This project is wrapper code between the django project and the xhtml2pdf project, both have a few maintaining so maybe are not ideal for your project.

What it does is simply allow people to create xhtml2pdf templates using all the cool django things like STATIC_URL etc.. (like one would for a webpage template), and the utils function makes all the images and resources appear in the pdf.

This release (0.0.7) supports Django 2.0, and Python 3.6.

NOTE:

While this project is being maintained on a limited basis for legacy projects, we recommend strongly that new projects consider using WeasyPrint <https://weasyprint.org>.

Usage

Simply do the following:

from django_xhtml2pdf.utils import generate_pdf

def myview(response):
    resp = HttpResponse(content_type='application/pdf')
    result = generate_pdf('my_template.html', file_object=resp)
    return result

Class-based views

You can use the provided PdfMixin with any view that subclasses TemplateView, example:

from django.views.generic.detail import DetailView
from django_xhtml2pdf.views import PdfMixin
from .models import Product

class ProductPdfView(PdfMixin, DetailView):
    model = Product
    template_name = "product_pdf.html"

It will output the rendered content of the view in pdf.

Decorator

Simply do the following:

from django_xhtml2pdf.utils import pdf_decorator

@pdf_decorator
def myview(request):
    return render(request, 'mytemplate.html')

Change the pdf file name:

from django_xhtml2pdf.utils import pdf_decorator

@pdf_decorator(pdfname='new_filename.pdf')
def myview(request):
    return render(request, 'mytemplate.html')