Xtykutl

I have followed too many answers to this but I need some more explanation on this topic as I want to know the root cause for it.

I am trying to create pdf using wkhtmltopdf.

This is my setting files look like :

Settings.py

    STATIC_URL = '/static/'



STATICFILES_DIRS = (

    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),

)



STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')

And the URL to reference static file is :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static '/css/template_pdf.css' %}" type="text/css" />

Or

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/template_pdf.css" type="text/css" />

or

<link rel="stylesheet" href="file:///static/css/template_pdf.css" type="text/css" />

or

I used this too:
https://gist.github.com/renyi/f02b4322590e9288ac679545df4748d3

and provided url as :

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='{{ STATIC_URL }}static/css/template_pdf.css' />

But the issue I understood is, all of the above except last one works perfectly while rendering view :

def view_pdf(request):

    """View function for home page of site."""



    context= {'title': 'Hello World!'}



    # Render the HTML template index.html with the data in the context variable

    return render(request, 'pdf/quotation.html', context=context)

But for creating pdf using wkhtmltopdf it specifically needs the url to be specified like :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http:localhost:8000/static/css/template_pdf.css" type="text/css" />

I know I am missing something in the static file. But I want to know why it works with rendering template but not with Generating pdf using wkhtmltopdf.
I dont think it is good idea to put directly domain name inside the referencing url.

A detailed solution for this would be helpful as I am very new to django.

I tried follow this answer too but nothing worked : Django wkhtmltopdf don't reading static files

in your settings.py

STATIC_URL = '/static/'



STATICFILES_DIRS = (

    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),

)



STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')



WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD = '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf'

to render static files in your template django provide static tag. You can use this as

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static '/css/template_pdf.css' %}" type="text/css" />

Also make sure you have this included in your urls.py

from django.conf import settings

if settings.DEBUG:

    from django.conf.urls.static import static

    urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

Don't forget to run collectstatic command in the end