Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: wagtail-pdf-view
Version: 0.2.1
Summary: PDF rendering views for the Wagtail CMS
Home-page: https://github.com/donhauser/wagtail-pdf
Author: Jonas Donhauser
License: UNKNOWN
Platform: UNKNOWN
Requires-Python: >=3.6
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
Provides-Extra: weasyprint
Provides-Extra: django-tex
License-File: LICENSE

# wagtail-pdf-view
Render Wagtail pages and models as PDF document using Weasyprint or LaTeX.

The goal of this extension is to provide a flexible but easy to use way to render Wagtail pages and Django models as PDF.
With this extension you can utilize all the benefits from the wagtail page system (previews, drafts, history) as well as the power of
*StreamField* and *RichText* for your generated PDF document.
Models may be easily rendered as PDF and will be accessible either through the admin interface or through a public URL.

Currently [weasyprint](https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint) (for HTML to PDF conversion) and latex is supported.
If you are undecided which one to use, [weasyprint](https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint) is recommended.

![Short Demo Clip](clip_wagtail_pdf_view_low.gif)

## Installing

Install the latest version from pypi:

```sh
pip install -U wagtail-pdf-view
# and either this for HTML -> PDF
pip install -U django-weasyprint
# and/or this for Latex -> PDF
pip install -U django-tex
```

and add the following to your installed apps:

```py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'wagtail_pdf_view',
    'wagtail.contrib.routable_page',
    ...
]
```

While [weasyprint](https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint) is installed as dependency of [django-weasyprint](https://github.com/fdemmer/django-weasyprint) and works out of the box,
a working latex interpreter (lualatex) must be installed on your system if you want to use [django-tex](https://github.com/weinbusch/django-tex).

If [django-weasyprint](https://github.com/fdemmer/django-weasyprint) and [django-tex](https://github.com/weinbusch/django-tex) is installed, weasyprint is selected by default.
For [django-tex](https://github.com/weinbusch/django-tex) you should set `DEFAULT_PDF_VIEW_PROVIDER = WagtailTexView` in your settings.


## Usage

All you need to do to render your Wagtail page as PDF, is to inherit from `PdfModelMixin`.
If you want to render a model instead, read the section **ModelAdmin** below.

**If you want to use latex, read the latex section below.**

Further configuration options include:
- `ROUTE_CONFIG` to enable rendering of the default HTML view and the PDF view at the same time
- `stylesheets` resp. `get_stylesheets` to include CSS stylesheets for [weasyprint](https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint)
- `attachment` to control the file attachment (i.e. whether to download the PDF or open it in the browser)

## Examples

A very simple example page using Wagtails StreamField.
Like for a regular Wagtail page, the template should be located under: `<app_dir>/templates/<app>/simple_pdf_page.html`
**If you're using django-tex the template extention .tex is expected**.

```py
from wagtail.core.models import Page
from wagtail.core.fields import RichTextField, StreamField
from wagtail.core import blocks
from wagtail.admin.edit_handlers import FieldPanel, StreamFieldPanel

from wagtail_pdf_view.mixins import PdfViewPageMixin

# Inherit from PdfViewPageMixin
class SimplePdfPage(PdfViewPageMixin, Page):
    
    # you can create fields as you're used to, e.g. StreamField
    content = StreamField([
        ("heading", blocks.CharBlock(form_classname="full title")),
        ("text", blocks.RichTextBlock()),
    ], blank=True)
    
    # content panel for the CMS (same as always)
    content_panels = Page.content_panels + [
        StreamFieldPanel("content"),
    ]
    
    # OPTIONAL: If you want to include a stylesheet
    #stylesheets = ["css/your_stylesheet.css"]
```

### Usage of `ROUTE_CONFIG`:

Default configuration:

```py
class PdfOnlyPage(PdfViewPageMixin, Page):

    # PDF only
    ROUTE_CONFIG = [
        ("pdf", r'^$'),
        ("html", None),
    ]
    
```
By default only the pdf-view is available, i.e. you may only view this page as pdf.
This is useful when you just want to display a generated pdf document easily.


A HTML first page: You can access the wagtail page as you're used e.g. *127.0.0.1/mypage*.
The PDF version will be available under *pdf/* e.g. *127.0.0.1/mypage/pdf*

```py
class HtmlAndPdfPage(PdfViewPageMixin, Page):

    # HTML first
    ROUTE_CONFIG = [
        ("html", r'^$'),
        ("pdf", r'^pdf/$'),
    ]
    
```

Note that the order of *html* and *pdf* is not arbitrary:
The entry you set first, will be displayed by default when using wagtails preview function. Depending on your case, you may want to put *pdf* in the first place, so your editors get the pdf-view by default, while html-page url stays the same for the users.
In both cases your editors may access both views through the drop-down menu integrated in the preview button.

A PDF first page: The PDF version is displayed with the regular url and
you can access the wagtail page under */html*, e.g. *127.0.0.1/mypage/html*

```py
class HtmlAndPdfPage(PdfViewPageMixin, Page):
    
    # PDF first
    ROUTE_CONFIG = [
        ("pdf", r'^$'),
        ("html", r'^html/$'),
    ]
    
```

`ROUTE_CONFIG` is build on wagtails [routable_page](https://docs.wagtail.io/en/stable/reference/contrib/routablepage.html), you can specify routes as you want (e.g. `("html", r'^web/$')`)

#### Reversing and using URLs in templates

As of version 0.2 reversing url patterns is supported.

This feature is useful in cases when you are serving multiple views (i.e. html and pdf).

You can access the URLs for the different views by using `routablepageurl` from the [routable_page](https://docs.wagtail.io/en/stable/reference/contrib/routablepage.html) module:

```html
{% load wagtailroutablepage_tags %}

<!-- HTML Page URL-->
{% routablepageurl page "html" %}

<!-- PDF Page URL-->
{% routablepageurl page "pdf" %}


<!-- When looping over Page.get_children, you need to use the specific Page object -->
{% for subpage in page.get_children %}
    <li>{% routablepageurl subpage.specific "pdf" %}</li>
{% endfor %}
```

In most cases you don't need the full functionality of `routablepageurl`. To make things easy you can simply access the different views by the custom URL attributes `url_pdf` and `url_html`:

```html
<!-- HTML view url -->
{{page.url_html}}

<!-- PDF view url -->
{{page.url_pdf}}


<!-- When looping over Page.get_children, you need to use the specific Page object -->
{% for subpage in page.get_children %}
    <li>{{subpage.specific.url_pdf}}</li>
{% endfor %}
```

If you are just interested in the extention to the normal page url:

```py
# this will be 'pdf/' in HTML-first mode
page.reverse_subpage('pdf')
```

## ModelAdmin

Version 0.2 introduces rendering for models via `ModelAdmin`.

The model needs to inherit from `PdfModelMixin` to enable rendering on the models side.
To make incorporating PDF-views as simple as possible this module offers two `ModelAdmin` mixins
`ModelAdminPdfViewMixin` and `ModelAdminPdfAdminViewMixin`.
If you are not using `ModelAdmin` you may add a view for the model manually.


### Hooking in the URLs

If you want to access PDFs from outside of the admin area, you need to hook in `wagtail_pdf_urls` into your projects `urls.py`.
If you are unsure whether you need this, it is recommended use the hook below:

```py
# urls.py

from wagtail_pdf_view import urls as wagtail_pdf_urls

urlpatterns = urlpatterns + [
    # hook in the 'live'-view PDFs under "pdf/"
    path("pdf/", include(wagtail_pdf_urls)),
    ...
    # IMPORTANT: This must be below the "pdf/" include
    path("", include(wagtail_urls)),
    ...
]
```

### Simple Example

Your model needs to inherit from `PdfModelMixin`:

```py
# models.py

from wagtail_pdf_view.mixins import PdfViewPageMixin, PdfModelMixin

class YourPdfModel(PdfModelMixin, models.Model):

    # the admin view uses a different template attribute to
    # prevent you from publishing sensitive content by accident
    
    # template for non-admin view
    template_name = "path/to/your_model.html"
    # template for admin 
    admin_template_name = "path/to/your_model_admin.html"
```

Unlike for PDF-Pages where everything is done in the Page-model, the hooks for `ModelAdmin` need to be extended:

By inheriting from `ModelAdminPdfViewMixin` or `ModelAdminPdfAdminViewMixin` you
automatically make the model accessible through a live url or through the admin panel respectively.

This separation should make it easy to choose a view to according to your security needs:
- `ModelAdminPdfViewMixin` is suited for non-sensitive public models.
- `ModelAdminPdfAdminViewMixin` makes the view only accessible to users with `view` permissions on the model.

```py
# wagtail_hooks.py

from wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.options import ModelAdmin, modeladmin_register

from .models import YourPdfModel


# OPTION 1)
# Creating a public view model (accessible for everybody through a url)
# MAKE SURE YOU HOOKED IN THE URLs PROPERLY

from wagtail_pdf_view.modeladmin.mixins import ModelAdminPdfViewMixin

@modeladmin_register
class YourPdfModelWagtailAdmin(ModelAdminPdfViewMixin, ModelAdmin):
    model = YourPdfModel

    
# OPTION 2)
# Creating admin-restricted view model

from wagtail_pdf_view.modeladmin.mixins import ModelAdminPdfAdminViewMixin

@modeladmin_register
class YourPdfModelWagtailAdmin(ModelAdminPdfAdminViewMixin, ModelAdmin):
    model = YourPdfModel
    
```

### Model URL configuration without ModelAdmin

This is an example how you can hook in the models PDF-view manually (without using `ModelAdmin`).

```py
# urls.py

# This will be either WagtailWeasyView or WagtailTexView depending on your installation
from wagtail_pdf_view.mixins import DEFAULT_PDF_VIEW_PROVIDER

from .models import YourPdfModel

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    # URL path for the DetailView with primary key pk
    re_path(r'^some/path/(?P<pk>\d+)/$',  DEFAULT_PDF_VIEW_PROVIDER.as_view(model=YourPdfModel)),
    ...
]
```

### Using a custom ButtonHelper or PermissionHelper

This library implements an easier extendable `ButtonHelper`.

If you are using a custom `ButtonHelper`, you should inherit from `ExtendableButtonHelperMixin` or `PdfViewButtonHelper`,
otherwise you will not see a button for the PDF-view of the object in `ModelAdmin`s `ListView`.

Example:
```py
class MyCustomButtonHelper(PdfViewButtonHelper):
    
    # simplified button registration
    # (action, properties)
    custom_object_buttons = [
        ("custom", {"label": 'Custom Label'}),
        ("some_action", {"label": 'Another Action'}),
    ]
```

Note that `custom_object_buttons` is defaulted with the actions *pdf* and *live* in `PdfViewButtonHelper`.


If you are setting a custom `PermissionHelper`, you need to inherit from `CustomActionPermissionHelperMixin`.


## Using latex

When you want to use latex instead of HTML, you should be aware of the following:

You need to add django_tex to `INSTALLED_APPS`:

```py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_tex',
    ...
]
```

You need to add the jinja tex engine to `TEMPLATES` in your settings.py:
```py
TEMPLATES += [
    {
        'NAME': 'tex',
        'BACKEND': 'django_tex.engine.TeXEngine', 
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'environment': 'wagtail_pdf_view.environment.latex_environment',
        },
    },
]
```

Set `DEFAULT_PDF_VIEW_PROVIDER` in your settings:

```py
from wagtail_pdf_view.views import WagtailTexView
DEFAULT_PDF_VIEW_PROVIDER = WagtailTexView
```

In case you just want to use latex for a specific model settings you can overrite `PDF_VIEW_PROVIDER`:

```py
from wagtail_pdf_view.views import WagtailTexView

class SimplePdfPage(PdfViewPageMixin, Page):

    # render with LaTeX instead
    PDF_VIEW_PROVIDER = WagtailTexView
```

In general you should include *wagtail_preamble.tex*, which provides required packages and commands for proper richtext handling.

```
{% include 'wagtail_preamble.tex' %}
```

You can set custom width for the richtext image insertion
 
```
{% raw %}
\renewcommand{\fullwidth} {0.8\textwidth}
\renewcommand{\partialwidth} {0.5\textwidth}
{% endraw  %} 
```

A very useful block is *raw*, this prevents the jinja rendering engine from interpreting everything inside.
This is nice if you want to create a latex command

```
{% raw  %}
{% endraw  %}
```

For further information read [the django-tex github page](https://github.com/weinbusch/django-tex)


