Python3 Django -> HTML to PDF

Question

There are a lot of different ways of generating pdfs from a django webpage in python2. The most clean, probably, is pisa and reportlab. These do not work for python3 though.

Answer 1

You could use Weasyprint. You could easily render directly.

You could do something like that:

    html = HTML(string=htmlstring)
    main_doc = html.render()
    pdf = main_doc.write_pdf()
    return HttpResponse(pdf, content_type='application/pdf')

To render your Django view to HTML, you could simply use the shortcut render_to_string(self.template_name, context, context_instance=RequestContext(self.request))

Be aware, when using This with a Synchronous Webserver/WSGI Server ALL requests will be blocked until the PDF is rendered. So consider using an ASYNC Worker.