There are still problems...it does not render headers and tables...

On May 26, 11:06 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I just made a change to trunk about. the new generic.pdf uses pyfpdf
> and it is smart in locating files for including images.
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> massimo
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> On May 26, 10:44 pm, Christopher Steel <chris.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I think report.pdf required reportlab? Massimo had an application for
> > creating forms that used markmin and latex.
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> > This web2py app includes a plugin that implements an assortment of pdf
> > stuff (mostly your implementation of pyfpdf and the report.pdf, was
> > that a Google thing?.
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> > Anyway the plugin is handy for testing and experimenting and includes
> > some other PDF examples, one with a different font.
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> >http://code.google.com/p/uc-pyfpdf/
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> > If you need some testing let me know, I love PDF's
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> > Cheers,
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> > Chris
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> > On May 26, 3:48 pm, Mariano Reingart <reing...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Putting the following code in generic.pdf and getting report.pdf does not 
> > > work?
> > > (also, per default there is a generic.pdf made by massimo that uses
> > > markmin and latex if I remember it correctly)
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> > > from gluon.contrib.pyfpdf import FPDF, HTMLMixin
> > > from gluon.sanitizer import sanitize
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> > > class MyFPDF(FPDF, HTMLMixin):
> > >    pass
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> > > pdf=MyFPDF()
> > > pdf.add_page()
> > > html=response.render('%s/%s.html' %
> > > (request.controller,request.function))
> > > html = sanitize(html, escape=False)
> > > pdf.write_html(html)
> > > response.headers['Content-Type']='application/pdf'
> > > response.write(pdf.output(dest='S'), escape=False)
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> > > Mariano 
> > > Reingarthttp://www.sistemasagiles.com.arhttp://reingart.blogspot.comOnThu,
> > >  May 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, luifran <lbernalhernan...@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > > > if I have a view , for example report.html, how I render this view in
> > > > pdf with the generic pdf?
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> > > > On 4 oct 2010, 17:08, Mariano Reingart <reing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:10 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> 
> > > >> wrote:
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> > > >> > I am sure this can also be done and better with pyfpdf but I have not
> > > >> > tried. Perhaps Mariano can help us
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> > > >> Having latest web2py versions (including pyfpdf), write in a 
> > > >> views/generic.pdf:
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> > > >> ---- begin file ----
> > > >> {{
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> > > >> from gluon.contrib.pyfpdf import FPDF, HTMLMixin
> > > >> from gluon.sanitizer import sanitize
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> > > >> class MyFPDF(FPDF, HTMLMixin):
> > > >>     pass
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> > > >> pdf=MyFPDF()pdf.add_page()
> > > >> html=response.render('%s/%s.html' %
> > > >> (request.controller,request.function))
> > > >> html = sanitize(html, escape=False)pdf.write_html(html)
> > > >> response.headers['Content-Type']='application/pdf'
> > > >> response.write(pdf.output(dest='S'), escape=False)
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> > > >> }}
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> > > >> ---- end file---
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> > > >> At MyFPDF class you can add headers and footers.
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> > > >> The sanitize part is to strip some HTML tags that cannot be rendered
> > > >> (ie. javascript).
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> > > >> As some DIVs contents and similar may still pass (like menus), a
> > > >> better alternative may be render only certains portions of the page in
> > > >> a custom view:
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> > > >> pdf.write_html(str(XML(CENTER(section), sanitize=False)))
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> > > >> Best regards,
>
> > > >> Mariano 
> > > >> Reingarthttp://www.sistemasagiles.com.arhttp://reingart.blogspot.com

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