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#coding: utf-8
# Ref:
# - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1377446/html-to-pdf-for-a-django-site
# - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179958/django-pisa-adding-images-to-pdf-output ?
# - http://web.archive.org/web/20090413054650/http://www.xhtml2pdf.com/doc/pisa-en.html
import cStringIO as StringIO
import ho.pisa as pisa
from django.template.loader import get_template
from django.template import Context
from django.http import HttpResponse
from cgi import escape
def render_to_pdf(template_src, context_dict):
template = get_template(template_src)
context = Context(context_dict)
html = template.render(context)
result = StringIO.StringIO()
pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(StringIO.StringIO(html.encode("UTF-8")), result)
if not pdf.err:
return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), mimetype='application/pdf')
return HttpResponse('We had some errors<pre>%s</pre>' % escape(html))