On 9/30/05, David S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am wondering how best to serve PDF files in Django.
>
> I am using ReportLab to generate a file.
It's entirely possible to serve PDF files dynamically using Django.
I've done this in the past, generating NCAA tournament brackets
dynamically for people in a March Madness tournament. The key is to
remember HttpResponse objects are file-like objects, so you can do
this in your view:
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/pdf')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=foo.pdf'
p = canvas.Canvas(response)
p.drawString(100, 100, "Hello world")
p.showPage()
p.save()
return response
I'll have this documented on djangoproject.com by the end of the day.
Adrian
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