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authorMax Peterson <max@incuna.com>2011-07-08 17:02:03 +0100
committerMax Peterson <max@incuna.com>2011-07-08 17:02:03 +0100
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+from .utils import *
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+from os import fdopen, remove
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, CalledProcessError
+from tempfile import mkstemp
+
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.http import HttpResponse
+from django.template import loader
+
+WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD = getattr(settings, 'WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD', 'wkhtmltopdf')
+
+def wkhtmltopdf(pages, output=None, **kwargs):
+ """
+ Converts html to PDF using http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/.
+
+ pages: List of file paths or URLs of the html to be converted.
+ output: Optionsal output file path.
+ **kwargs: Passed to wkhtmltopdf via _extra_args() (See
+ https://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf/blob/master/README_WKHTMLTOPDF
+ for acceptable args.)
+ Kwargs is passed through as arguments. e.g.:
+ {'footer_html': 'http://example.com/foot.html'}
+ becomes
+ '--footer-html http://example.com/foot.html'
+ Where there is no value passed, use a blank string. e.g.:
+ {'disable_javascript': ''}
+ becomes:
+ '--disable-javascript '
+
+ example usage:
+ wkhtmltopdf(html_path="~/example.html",
+ dpi=300,
+ orientation="Landscape",
+ disable_javascript="")
+ """
+
+ def _extra_args(**kwargs):
+ """Converts kwargs into a string of flags to be passed to wkhtmltopdf."""
+ flags = ''
+ for k, v in kwargs.items():
+ flags += ' --%s %s' % (k.replace('_', '-'), v)
+ return flags
+
+ if not isinstance(pages, list):
+ pages = [pages]
+
+ kwargs['quiet'] = ''
+ args = '%s %s %s %s' % (WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD, _extra_args(**kwargs), ' '.join(pages), output or '-')
+
+ process = Popen(args, stdout=PIPE, shell=True)
+ stdoutdata, stderrdata = process.communicate()
+
+ if process.returncode != 0:
+ raise CalledProcessError(returncode, args)
+
+ if output is None:
+ output = stdoutdata
+
+ return output
+
+def render_to_pdf(template_name, dictionary=None, context_instance=None, header_template=None, footer_template=None, **kwargs):
+ """Renders a html template as a PDF response."""
+
+ page_path = template_to_temp_file(template_name, dictionary, context_instance)
+
+ tmp_files = []
+ if header_template is not None:
+ kwargs['header_html'] = render_to_temp_file(header_template, dictionary, context_instance)
+ tmp_files.append(kwargs['header_html'])
+ if footer_template is not None:
+ kwargs['footer_html'] = render_to_temp_file(footer_template, dictionary, context_instance)
+ tmp_files.append(kwargs['footer_html'])
+
+ content = wkhtmltopdf([page_path], **kwargs)
+
+ for path in tmp_files:
+ remove(path)
+
+ return HttpResponse(content, mimetype='application/pdf')
+
+def template_to_temp_file(*args, **kwargs):
+ """Renders a template to a temp file, and returns the path of the file."""
+ fd, tmppath = mkstemp(suffix='.html')
+ f = fdopen(fd, 'wt')
+ f.write(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs))
+ f.close()
+ return tmppath
+
+