How to get the rendered template from django?-pdfkit - django-templates

Question

I have a template in my django application and I need to get it rendered in a variable or save it in an html file.
My goal is to convert the html rendering of the template to pdf, I am using pdfkit since it is the best html to pdf converter I have seen, reportlab does not do what I want.
When I try to do something like this:
pdf = pdfkit.from_file ('app / templates / app / table.html', 'table.pdf')
I get the pdf but print something like this:
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I appreciate any help!

Answer 1

This is the solution to my case that I use django 2.0.1 and pdfkit 0.6.1:
To obtain the template:
template = get_template ('plapp / person_list.html')
To render it with the data:
html = template.render ({'persons': persons})
To continuation the definition of the method in views.py, the one that downloads the pdf directly in the browser:
def pdf(request):
persons = Person.objects.all()
template = get_template('plapp/person_list.html')
html = template.render({'persons': persons})
options = {
'page-size': 'Letter',
'encoding': "UTF-8",
}
pdf = pdfkit.from_string(html, False, options)
response = HttpResponse(pdf, content_type='application/pdf')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment;
filename="pperson_list_pdf.pdf"'
return response

Answer 2

from django.template.loader import get_template, render_to_string
Use the above to import functions that return the template. get_template returns the template object while render_to_string returns the string of a rendered template. Here's how I do it using weasyprint not pdfkit though.
def weasy_pdf_generation(request, id):
# my data
_, _, draft_details = get_draft_details('setup', request, id)
radios_dict = {k:v[1] for k,v in draft_details.items()}
# rendering to string
html_template = render_to_string('tax/setupreview report.html', radios_dict)
styles = CSS(url="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css")
pdf_file = HTML(string=html_template).write_pdf(stylesheets=[styles])
#response details
response = HttpResponse(pdf_file, content_type='application/pdf')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'filename="home_page.pdf"'
return response