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philfreo/html2pdf.py

Created June 21, 2013 22:50
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  1. philfreo created this gist Jun 21, 2013.
    21 changes: 21 additions & 0 deletions html2pdf.py
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    import mimerender

    mimerender.register_mime('pdf', ('application/pdf',))
    mimerender = mimerender.FlaskMimeRender(global_charset='UTF-8')

    def render_pdf(html):
    from xhtml2pdf import pisa
    from cStringIO import StringIO
    pdf = StringIO()
    pisa.CreatePDF(StringIO(html.encode('utf-8')), pdf)
    resp = pdf.getvalue()
    pdf.close()
    return resp

    @app.route('/invoice/<invoice_id>/', methods=['GET'])
    @login_required
    @mimerender(default='html', html=lambda html: html, pdf=render_pdf, override_input_key='format')
    def view_invoice(org_id, invoice_id):
    html = render_template('invoice.html', id=invoice_id)
    return { 'html': html } # mimerender requires a dict