Docker Image of PDF Engine

Details About the Image

The PDF Engine is based on 3 main frameworks/libraries:

• Django==2.0.3
• gunicorn==19.7.1
• WeasyPrint==0.36

Get started

The Entire Engine is based on Django Framework and it's template rendering to convert the received context into a valid HTML content and through Weasyprint into a PDF document.

It takes

Start the PDF Engine Docker

$ docker-compose -f local.yml up --build pdf-engine

It will provide:

• localhost:8200 - PDF Engine

PDFTester => GET & POST requests => Only for Test Purpose - Default: Document

Complex PDFTester =>  GET & POST requests => /?lang=de-ch&doc_type=invoice&font=Proxima&filename=My%20Lovely%20PDF

• /?lang=de-ch&doc_type=project&font=Proxima&filename=My%20Lovely%20PDF
• lang = [en, de, de-ch] #default=en
• doc_type = [invoice,(...anything)] #default=invoice
• font = [Proxima, Lato, Roboto, Saira_Semi_Condensed] # default=Proxima
• filename = Sample Name Document #default="Sample Title" deactivate

HTML Version =>  GET & POST requests => Only to speed up development for the HTML with Gulp and BrowserSync

Prepare the Python environment:

$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# optional
$ cp .env.example .env

Issues:

https://github.com/catalincoroeanu/docker-pdf-engine/issues/new