How to get the rendered template from django?-pdfkit

Question

I have a template in my django application and I need to get it rendered in a variable or save it in an html file.

My goal is to convert the html rendering of the template to pdf, I am using pdfkit since it is the best html to pdf converter I have seen, reportlab does not do what I want.

When I try to do something like this:

pdf = pdfkit.from_file ('app / templates / app / table.html', 'table.pdf')

I get the pdf but print something like this:

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I appreciate any help!

Answer 1

This is the solution to my case that I use django 2.0.1 and pdfkit 0.6.1:

To obtain the template:

template = get_template ('plapp / person_list.html')

To render it with the data:

html = template.render ({'persons': persons})

To continuation the definition of the method in views.py, the one that downloads the pdf directly in the browser:

def pdf(request):
    persons = Person.objects.all()
    template = get_template('plapp/person_list.html')
    html = template.render({'persons': persons})
    options = {
        'page-size': 'Letter',
        'encoding': "UTF-8",
    }
    pdf = pdfkit.from_string(html, False, options)
    response = HttpResponse(pdf, content_type='application/pdf')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment;
    filename="pperson_list_pdf.pdf"'
    return response