FPDF "ne commence pas par '%PDF-' "

[J-Michel Angers]

Hi,
A try to write my first PDF report (the user fill a form, manager it, .... at the end another user print this order).
All the test I read in this forum or in the documentation alwyas end with "Le fichier ne commence pas par '%PDF-' Local\EWH-3508-0 "

First test :
from gluon.contrib.fpdf import FPDF
def test():
        pdf = FPDF()
        pdf.add_page()
        pdf.set_font('Arial', 'B', 16)
        pdf.cell(40,10,'Hello World')
        pdf.output('tuto1.pdf','F')
        return response.stream(open('tuto1.pdf'))
==> I get the message

Second one :
from gluon.contrib.fpdf import FPDF
def test():
        pdf = FPDF()
        pdf.add_page()
        pdf.set_font('Arial', 'B', 16)
        pdf.cell(40,10,'Hello World')
        response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/pdf'   
        return XML(pdf.output('', 'S'))
==> I get the message

I remark in the source code, that the "%PDF- + version" is written in the _enddoc function, called by the close.
So I try to add "pdf.close()" ... ==> I also get the message.

Other try :
    pdf = FPDF('P','mm','A4')   # A4 Portrait en mm
    pdf.add_page()
    pdf.set_font('Arial', 'I', 14)
    pdf.cell(40, 10, "Hello, ExampleServer World")
    pdf.close()
    stuff = open("stuff.pdf", 'w')
    stuff.write(pdf.output('', 'S'))
    stuff.close()
==> I file is created, named stuff.pdf. When I try to open this file (with Windows Acrobat reader) => "Cette page contient une erreur" (This page contains an error).

[Peter]

Have been outputting pdfs for a while and this is what works for me ...
 
note, I don't close the pdf    pdf.close? but this allows the user to either open or save the file anywhere on their machine (Linux and Windows)

   
    ....
    pdf.cell( ln=0, h=9.0, align='R', w=178.0, txt="%s %s" % (euro(), '{:10,.2f}'.format(inv_tot)), border=0 )

    import os
    import sys
    if session.inv_print_type == 'ORIGINAL':
        invc_filename = "INVC_%s_%s.pdf" % (session.inv_number,session.inv_company)
    else:
        invc_filename = "INVC_%s_%s_COPY.pdf" % (session.inv_number, session.inv_company)

    invc_filename = invc_filename.replace(' ','_')
    invc_filename = invc_filename.replace( '&', 'and')

    s_io = pdf.output(dest='S')
    response.headers['Content-Type']='application/pdf'
    response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="%s"' % invc_filename
    raise HTTP(200, s_io, **response.headers)

[J-Michel Angers]

SUPER !

With thiw, it works exactly as I wish.

 => A message appears "Do you want to open/save/saveAs ?", and after the choice "Open", I see my PDF in the "Acrobat" tool.

Thank you very much for this advice :-) :-)

Le lundi 26 juin 2017 07:12:49 UTC+2, Peter a écrit :

Have been outputting pdfs for a while and this is what works for me ...
 
note, I don't close the pdf    pdf.close? but this allows the user to either open or save the file anywhere on their machine (Linux and Windows)

   
    ....

[Peter]

Usually I'm the one getting the help J-Michel,

So I'm very happy to have helped someone out for a change!

Regards
Peter

[Ovidio Marinho]

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