Dynamic pages in pdf format

[Mehmet Kose]

hi,
I want to publish the page contents in pdf format. "site.com/something.html" and "site.com/something.pdf" for example.
I did some research about pisa. python code that generates pdf with pisa;

import ho.pisa as pisa
def helloWorld():
    filename = "/srv/www/hello.pdf"
    pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(
    "Hello <strong>World</strong>",
    file(filename, "wb"))
    if not pdf.err:
        pisa.startViewer(filename)

if __name__=="__main__":
    pisa.showLogging()
    helloWorld()

how can I do dynamic output it into the handler?

class PdfHandler(BaseHandler):
    def get(self, slug):
        import ho.pisa as pisa
        self.set_header("Content-Type", "application/pdf")
        ...
        ...

[Mehmet Kose]

wkhtmltox looks nice. but I still do not know how I created the PDF handler in the dump :/

2013/3/27 Brian Morgan <brian.s...@gmail.com>

I have done this in pylons and not tornado, but I would recommend wkhtmltopdf (https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/) over pisa.  It does a much better job rendering html.  With pisa I found we had to do table based layouts vs using floats and a lot of other hacks to get it to display pretty basic styling.  There is not a python api for it, but you can call it via a system call using temp files.

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[Russ Weeks]

Brian, are you using the python bindings for wkhtmltopdf or are you running it from the command line?  Is there any way to pass in an HTML string plus a set of CSS styles, or is it strictly HTTP-based?

I've been using weasyprint because it renders better than pisa and seems to be more actively developed.  But the rendering is not as good as a proper webkit-based solution and it chokes on large HTML documents.

-Russ

[Brian Morgan]

Mehmet-

  See attached for a working example.  You will need to have wkhtmltopdf installed locally.  I have not tried this on a non-unix system.

-Brian

[Brian Morgan]

See my working example in my response to Mehmet.  I am passing in css styles in the html, but you can include references to other local resources like images and css files.

-Brian