I'm using a standard example from the web (http://www.20seven.org/journal/2008/11/pdf-generation-with-pisa-in-django.html) to convert a django view / template into a PDF.
Is there an "easy" way to include images (either from a url or a reference on the server) in the template so they will show on the PDF?
I got the images working. the code is as follows:
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.template import RequestContext
from django.conf import settings
import ho.pisa as pisa
import cStringIO as StringIO
import cgi
import os
def dm_monthly(request, year, month):
html = render_to_string('reports/dmmonthly.html', { 'pagesize' : 'A4', }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
result = StringIO.StringIO()
pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(StringIO.StringIO(html.encode("UTF-8")), dest=result, link_callback=fetch_resources )
if not pdf.err:
return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), mimetype='application/pdf')
return HttpResponse('Gremlins ate your pdf! %s' % cgi.escape(html))
def fetch_resources(uri, rel):
path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, uri.replace(settings.MEDIA_URL, ""))
return path
This was taken liberally from http://groups.google.com/group/xhtml2pdf/browse_thread/thread/4cf4e5e0f4c99f55