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Sure, I'd be happy to provide you with an informative tutorial on installing django-xhtml2pdf using pip, along with a code example. django-xhtml2pdf is a Django app for generating PDFs using HTML templates and CSS styling. It utilizes the xhtml2pdf library to convert HTML to PDF.
It's always a good practice to work within a virtual environment to avoid conflicts with system-wide packages. If you don't have virtualenv installed, you can install it using:
Now, create a virtual environment:
Activate the virtual environment:
Now that you're in your virtual environment, you can install django-xhtml2pdf using pip:
Open your Django project's settings.py file and add 'xhtml2pdf', to the INSTALLED_APPS:
Now, let's create a simple Django view that generates a PDF using xhtml2pdf.
Create an HTML template named your_template.html in your Django app's templates directory. For simplicity, let's create a basic template:
Finally, configure a URL for the pdf_view in your urls.py:
Now, when you visit /generate-pdf/ in your browser, it should trigger the pdf_view and generate a PDF using django-xhtml2pdf.
Remember to run migrations (python manage.py migrate) if you added a new app to your INSTALLED_APPS.
That's it! You've successfully installed django-xhtml2pdf and created a simple PDF generation view in your Django project. You can customize the HTML template and the view according to your requirements.
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