Question

I’m a python newbie trying to build my first app with Google App Engine (and Python) that save time when you need to write a form contract (like a house rental or car rental contract (link: http://contractpy.appspot.com ).

I’d like to know what is the best and simplest way to export the final output (at the moment, an HTML page) to a pdf, odt or googledoc file. In other words: instead of copying and pasting, the user gets what he wants: the contract file ready to print.

This is the current state of the output (a sample):

http://contractpy.appspot.com/your_contract?resident=Nicola%20Tesla&nacionality=Serbian-American&SSN=1234567&driverLicense=0000001&email=&witness=Carl%20Sagan&owner=House%20owner&contractType=House%20Rental%20Contract&city=Smiljan

But I’d like to get something like this:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8TXLR_e14aCeVVfZVZGdUVNUEE

How could I get this?

Thanks in advance for any help!!

Answer 1

You need to render an html file with some paged media tags. for example:

@page {     
    size: 21cm 29.7cm;
    margin: 1.5cm;
}

than convert it with Conversion API and serve the output file