Re: Saving browser output as pdf

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Nick Apostolakis <nickapos@oncrete.gr> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Mark Furbee <markfurbee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Django docs (pretty turse):
>>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/outputting-pdf/
>>>
>>> From ReportLab site:
>>> http://www.reportlab.com/software/documentation/
>>>
>>> Here's a decent quick tutorial:
>>>
>>> http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/03/08/a-simple-step-by-step-reportlab-tutorial/
>>>
>>> Note that what you are proposing is to create an HTML version of the
>>> report
>>> and a separate PDF version using ReportLab. Otherwise, if you want to
>>> make
>>> what would be an HTML report download as a PDF document, use @Mike's
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>>
>>
>>
> Indeed Mark's solution is more elegant than mine if you want to use the same
> view as both html or pdf depending on a switch.

In that way the pdf is dependent on the browser, but i want browser
independent output.

> My solution creates two independend views with the same arguments, one of
> them produces always html, and the other pdf. I wanted it that way since
> these two views are aesthetically different.

I also followed this procedure of two independent views of same
argument, that's why i am looking for some easy way out.

> Depending on your design, choose the one most comfortable.
>
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