On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Victor Hooi <victorh...@gmail.com> wrote: > But yeah, I'd still love if there was a separate template I could use > to generate the PDF. It just feels very weird building up the PDF line > by line in views.py.
the obvious answer is "write your own"; but it doesn't have to be a full-fledged templating language capable of creating any PDF imaginable. just what you need. IOW: write a simple function for each PDF format you need, with the data as parameters, and a file-like object to write on. if you wish, you can make it very non-django, the data input could be any python sequence of data objects, that way you can feed it a list of dictionaries, or a django queryset (handy for testcases). then your Django views can be almost as usual: get parameters from the request, data from the database, filter and preprocess all you need, and feed to the relevant PDF format function. that way you get the same content/presentation separation, even if the presentation is written in procedural python instead of descriptive templates. -- Javier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
