[web2py] experimental... .pdf

[mdipierro]

install pdflatex

create a views/generic.pdf that contains:

---- begin file ----
{{
import re
from gluon.contrib.markmin.markmin2pdf import markmin2pdf
def markmin_serializer(text,tag=None,attr={}):
    if tag==None: return re.sub('\s+',' ',text)
    if tag=='br': return '\n\n'
    if tag=='h1': return '# '+text+'\n\n'
    if tag=='h2': return '#'*2+' '+text+'\n\n'
    if tag=='h3': return '#'*3+' '+text+'\n\n'
    if tag=='h4': return '#'*4+' '+text+'\n\n'
    if tag=='li': return '\n- '+text.replace('\n',' ')
    if tag=='table': return '\n-----\n'+text+'\n------\n'
    if tag=='tr': return text[3:].replace('\n',' ')+'\n'
    if tag=='td': return ' | '+text
    if tag=='p': return text+'\n\n'
    if tag=='b' or tag=='strong': return '**%s**' % text
    if tag=='em' or tag=='i': return "''%s''" % text
    if tag=='tt' or tag=='code': return '``%s``' % text
    if tag=='a': return '[[%s %s]]' % (text,attr.get('_href',''))
    return text
html=response.render('%s/%s.html' %
(request.controller,request.function))
markmin=TAG(html).element('#content').flatten(markmin_serializer)
response.write(markmin2pdf(markmin)[0],escape=False)
response.headers['content-type']='text'
}}
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Now you should be able to view any web2py page with .pdf in pdf.

I am sure this can also be done and better with pyfpdf but I have not
tried. Perhaps Mariano can help us