django-wkhtmltoimage

Converts HTML to Image

Provides Django views to wrap the HTML to Image conversion of the wkhtmltoimage binary.

Requirements

Install the wkhtmltopdf static binary.

This requires libfontconfig (on Ubuntu: sudo aptitude install libfontconfig).

Python 2.6+ and 3.3+ are supported.

for HTML to PDF use this library.

Installation

Run pip install django-wkhtmltoimage.

Add 'wkhtmltoimage' to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py.

By default it will execute the first wkhtmltoimage command found on your PATH.

If you can't add wkhtmltoimage to your PATH, you can set WKHTMLTOIMAGE_CMD to a specific executable:

e.g. in settings.py:

WKHTMLTOIMAGE_CMD = '/path/to/my/wkhtmltoimage'

or alternatively as env variable:

export WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD=/path/to/my/wkhtmltoimage

You may also set WKHTMLTOIMAGE_OPTIONS in settings.py to a dictionary of default command-line options.

The default is:

   WKHTMLTOIMAGE_OPTIONS = {
       'quiet': True,
       'quiet': True,
       'format': 'png'
   }


You may set font path for missing font files

WKHTMLTOIMAGE_ENV = {'FONTCONFIG_PATH': '/path/to/my/fonts'}

You can also set Debug option for detail errors

WKHTMLTOIMAGE_DEBUG = (True/False)

The default is: :: settings.DEBUg

Usage

from wkhtmltoimage.views import ImageTemplateView

class ProfileImageView(ImageTemplateView):

filename = 'text.png' template_name = 'template_image.html'

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