Plone PDF library.
This package contains a number of functions for generating PDF documents inside plone.
It's currently badly named. It has no dependency on Plomino.
You should install the dependencies required by weasyprint.
http://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html
On a Ubuntu system and when using Ubuntu you should install libcffi-dev.
Include pretaweb.plomino2pdf in the eggs section of your buildout:
eggs =
...
pretaweb.plomino2pdf
Examples:
Generate a pdf:
from pretaweb.plomino2pdf.api import generate_pdf
pdf = generate_pdf('some_url',some_context)This will generate a pdf using plone.subrequest. 'some_url' should be relative to the url of some_context.
There is also a view that allows any url to be downloaded as a PDF:
http://mysite/somepage/pdf_viewor
http://mysite/somepage/pdf_view?filename=somepage.pdf