Thanks a lot Anthony :)
On May 18, 7:15 pm, Anthony wrote:
> I haven't tried it, bu there's a 'generic.pdf' view template. Looks like it
> takes the HTML inside the 'content' div of a rendered HTML template and
> converts it to markmin and then to PDF. So, maybe try:
>
> def export_PDF():
> results=db().select()
> return dict(results=results)
>
> Then define an 'export_PDF.html' view to render the results in HTML, and
> when you go to /app/controller/export_PDF.pdf, the generic PDF view should
> convert the HTML view into a PDF. I think your HTML view will either have to
> extend the default 'layout.html', or make sure the results go inside a div
> with id=content for generic.pdf to work -- otherwise, you could create your
> own custom export_PDF.pdf view based on generic.pdf.
>
> You could also tryhttp://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/wiki/Web2Py(pyfpdf is a
> contributed module that comes with web2py)
> orhttps://github.com/lucasdavila/plugin-appreport/wiki.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:40:34 AM UTC-4, Neveen Adel wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > How can i export a result set to PDF file?
>
> > e.g.:
>
> > def export_PDF()
> > results = db().select()
> > return pdf_file
>
> > Thanks in Advance
