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Sébastien Fievet
April 16, 2011
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[Django] Generating PDF with PDFForm
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Transcript
Generating PDF with PDFForm Sébastien Fievet Djangocong Marseille April 16,
2011
Case study: outputting “simple” PDFs
Simple things should remain simple
Focus on skills
Designer == templating
Developper == rendering
The solution ?
None
None
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pip install fdfgen
from fdfgen import forge_fdf def fill_form(fields, src, pdftk_bin): ... fdf_stream
= forge_fdf(fdf_data_strings=fields) ...
Issue
Issue Breaks on accentuated character
“ ” Fork it, fix it, contribute it. -- a
DVCS convinced guy
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aptitude install pdftk
pdftk <PDF input> dump_data_fields
pdftk <PDF input> fill_form <FDF file> output <PDF output> flatten
import subprocess ... def fill_form(fields, src, pdftk_bin): ... cmd =
' '.join([pdftk_bin, src, 'fill_form', '-', 'output', '-', 'flatten']) try: process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True) return process.communicate(input=fdf_stream) except OSError, e: return None, e
But...
But... utf8 support broken on Ubuntu 10.10(binary package, v1.41)
But... utf8 support broken on Ubuntu 10.10(binary package, v1.41) Use
the source luke (v1.44)
But... utf8 support broken on Ubuntu 10.10(binary package, v1.41) Use
the source luke (v1.44) wget && make && make install
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Django template engine == The challenge
Template loading
Template loading PDFs are binary file
Template loading PDFs are binary file We don't care about
the file content
Template loading PDFs are binary file We don't care about
the file content But we ALWAYS need the template path
import codecs from django.template.loader import find_template def get_template(template_name): def strict_errors(exception):
raise exception def fake_strict_errors(exception): return (u'', -1) codecs.register_error('strict', fake_strict_errors) template, origin = find_template(template_name) codecs.register_error('strict', strict_errors) return template
from django.template import loader, Template ... def get_template_from_string(source, origin=None, name=None):
if name and name.endswith('.pdf'): return PdfTemplate('pdf', origin, name) return Template(source, origin, name) loader.get_template_from_string = get_template_from_string
Template origin * Paranoiac mode
Template origin TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True * Paranoiac mode
Template origin TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True Or monkey-patch make_origin * *
Paranoiac mode
Template rendering
Template rendering Custom rendering method Leveraging pdftk and FDFGen Use
a dedicated Template class
from django.template import Template ... class PdfTemplate(Template): def __init__(self, template_string,
origin=None, name='<Unknown Template>'): self.origin = origin def render(self, context): context = context.items() output, err = fill_form(context, self.origin.name) if err: raise PdfTemplateError(err) return output
https://gist.github.com/918403
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Usage
from django.http import HttpResponse from pdf import get_template def pdf_view(request,
template_name='pdf/awesome.pdf'): context = { 'foo': 'bar', 'bar': 'baz', 'awesome': True, 'user': request.user, } response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/pdf') response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=awesome.pdf' template = get_template(template_name) response.write(template.render(context)) return response
Demo
Questions?