I am using wkhtmltopdf wrapper to generate template into PDF in Django 1.6. It works fine when I want to display the PDF afterwards or send the PDF file with HttpResponse for download but what I want to do is to create the file in my tmp folder and attach it to an email.
I am not sure how to achieve this.
# views.py
context = {
'products_dict': products_dict,
'main_categories': main_categories,
'user_category': user_category
}
response = PDFTemplateResponse(request=request,
context=context,
template="my_template.html",
filename="filename.pdf",
show_content_in_browser=True,
cmd_options={'encoding': 'utf8',
'quiet': True,
'orientation': 'landscape',
}
)
return response
The code above generate the PDF exactly how I want it. The thing is I don't want to display the PDF in the browser or start a download (I don't want to return response). I just want to create it and then attach the file to an email like this:
email = EmailMessage()
email.subject = "subject"
email.body = "Your PDF"
email.from_email = "[email protected]"
email.to = [ "[email protected]", ]
# Attach PDF file to the email
email.attach_file(my_pdf_file_here)
# Send email
email.send()
I tried to use subprocess but it doesn't seem like I can send context to my template to render it before generating the PDF.
Your issue is not with wkhtmltopdf, but the django-wkhtmltopdf which provides some class-based views that it renders with wkhtmltopdf. If you don't want a view, you don't need to use them: you could just render the template yourself and pass the result string to the command-line wkhtmltopdf tool.
It looks like the django-wkhtmltopdf library does provide some utility functions (in the utils directory) which might make that last stage a bit easier.