The pisa pypi entry suggests that you switch to xml2pdf:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xhtml2pdf


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Satinderpal Singh <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to produce pdf from html using the following code, but
> unable to do so, it gives an error that, global name 'results' is not
> defined. Please tell me how to use this view.
>
> def render_to_pdf(template_src, context_dict):
>     template = get_template(template_src)
>     context = Context(context_dict)
>     html  = template.render(context)
>     result = StringIO.StringIO()
>
>     pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(StringIO.StringIO(html.encode("ISO-8859-1")),
> result)
>     if not pdf.err:
>         return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), mimetype='application/pdf')
>     return HttpResponse('We had some errors<pre>%s</pre>' % escape(html))
>
> def myview(request):
>     #Retrieve data or whatever you need
>     return render_to_pdf(
>             'report/pdf.html',
>             {
>                 'pagesize':'A4',
>                 'mylist': results,
>             }
>         )
>
> in the report/pdf.html there is:
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
> <html>
>     <head>
>         <title>My Title</title>
>         <style type="text/css">
>             @page {
>                 size: {{ pagesize }};
>                 margin: 1cm;
>                 @frame footer {
>                     -pdf-frame-content: footerContent;
>                     bottom: 0cm;
>                     margin-left: 9cm;
>                     margin-right: 9cm;
>                     height: 1cm;
>                 }
>             }
>         </style>
>     </head>
> {% block report %}
>     <body>
>         <div>
>             {% for item in mylist %}
>                 {{item}}
>             {% endfor %}
>         </div>
>         <div id="footerContent">
>             {%block page_foot%}
>                 Page <pdf:pagenumber>
>                  <pdf:barcode>
>             {%endblock%}
>         </div>
>     </body>
> </html>
>
>
> --
> Satinderpal Singh
> http://satindergoraya.blogspot.in/
> http://satindergoraya91.blogspot.in/
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