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 <
satinder.goray...@gmail.com> 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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