Fully running view translating a latex file into pdf.

views/reports/report_2.pdf

+{{include 'reports/report_2.latex'}}
+
+{{
+import cStringIO
+import os
+
+from subprocess import call
+from tempfile import TemporaryFile
+from uuid import uuid4
+
+# recuperate the latex string generate by the latex view
+# and remove it from the response object
+latex = response.body.getvalue()
+response.body = cStringIO.StringIO()
+
+# go to the private directory and create a latex file
+cwd = os.getcwd()
+os.chdir(os.path.join(request.folder, 'private'))
+
+fn = str(uuid4())
+fi = open('%s.tex' % fn, 'wb')
+fi.write(latex)
+fi.close()
+
+# convert the latex file into pdf
+cmd = ['pdflatex', '-interaction', 'nonstopmode', '%s.tex' % fn] 
+call(cmd, stdout=TemporaryFile())
+
+# copy the pdf in the new response
+fi = open('%s.pdf' % fn, 'rb')
+response.headers['Content-Type']='application/pdf'
+response.write(fi.read(), escape=False)
+
+# clean file
+for ext in ('aux', 'log', 'pdf', 'tex'):
+    f = '%s.%s' % (fn, ext)
+    if os.path.exists(f):
+        os.remove(f)
+     pass
+pass
+
+# goback to the web2py main directory
+os.chdir(cwd)
+}}
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