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Django 3 Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Django 3 Web Development Cookbook Actionable solutions to common problems in Python web development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987428
Length 608 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Jake Kronika Jake Kronika
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Django 3.0 2. Models and Database Structure FREE CHAPTER 3. Forms and Views 4. Templates and JavaScript 5. Custom Template Filters and Tags 6. Model Administration 7. Security and Performance 8. Hierarchical Structures 9. Importing and Exporting Data 10. Bells and Whistles 11. Testing 12. Deployment 13. Maintenance 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Generating PDF documents

Django views allow you to create much more than just HTML pages. You can create files of any type. For example, in the Exposing settings in JavaScript recipe in Chapter 4, Templates and JavaScript, our view provides its output as a JavaScript file rather than HTML. You can also create PDF documents for invoices, tickets, receipts, booking confirmations, and so on. In this recipe, we will show you how to generate handouts to print for each idea from the database. We are going to use the WeasyPrint library to make PDF documents out of HTML templates.

Getting ready

WeasyPrint depends on several libraries that you need to install on your computer. On macOS, you can install them with Homebrew using this...

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