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Tahseen Adit
Tahseen Adit

Reputation: 184

How to make a pdf of a specific part of a html file in django

I want to generate pdf from html in django using xhtml2pdf. But xhtml2pdf seems to make a PDF of full HTML template. What I want to say is that suppose I have a side menu, a header, a footer and a table of some contents in my html file. Now, I want to only generate pdf of that table from the html file. How can I do that using xhtml2pdf ?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 805

Answers (1)

Rieljun Liguid
Rieljun Liguid

Reputation: 1531

You can separate your template files for different part of the page. For example, you may have a base html that contains the common templates, and you will also have your table.html that contains the data you want to convert to pdf.

You can use include built-in templatetag to use it in another template: See docs here. You can aslo check extends templatetag which is very handy here.

Something like this:

# base.html
{% include 'table.html' %}

# views.py
def render_to_pdf(request):
    template_path = 'table.html'  # Here is the template you want to convert
    context = {'myvar': 'this is your template context'}

    # Create a Django response object, and specify content_type as pdf
    response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/pdf')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="report.pdf"'

    # find the template and render it.
    template = get_template(template_path)
    html = template.render(Context(context))

    # create a pdf
    pisaStatus = pisa.CreatePDF(
      html, dest=response, link_callback=link_callback)
    # if error then show some funy view
    if pisaStatus.err:
      return HttpResponse('We had some errors <pre>' + html + '</pre>')
    return response

You can see the pdf creation in xhtml2pdf docs here

Upvotes: 1

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