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kitchen800

Reputation: 227

using pandoc to generate pdf for Heroku

On my Django site I have a button that will create a word document and covert it into pdf file to show it to the user in a new window. Now this is done by reading a word document using docx and then docx2pdf to make the conversation.

My problem is that when I launch it on Heroku to make it live, because heroku runs on linux this means that my document wont be created because im trying to generate it with docx.

I think it may be possible to use pandoc. However I am have trouble implementing it. below is the word document generation and pdf generation without trying to implement pandoc. how can I implement pandoc with the code below:

import docx

def making_a_doc_function(request):

 doc = docx.Document()
 doc.add_heading("hello")

 doc.save('thisisdoc.docx')
 convert("thisisdoc.docx", "output.pdf")
 pdf = open('output.pdf', 'rb')
 response = FileResponse(pdf)
return response

pandoc documentation: https://pypi.org/project/pyandoc/

Upvotes: 0

Views: 290

Answers (1)

Cmaiek
Cmaiek

Reputation: 1

Heroku itself does not prevent you from creating docx files using python-docx, the only issue is storing the output files to external storage (python-docx does not work with remote locations for neither upload nor saving). I needed to write custom processors to make it work with AWS S3.

Upvotes: 0

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