Flask handling a PDF as its own page

Question

For my personal website, I want to have a separate page just for my résumé, which is a PDF. I\'ve tried multiple ways, but I can\'t figure out how to get flask to handle a P

Answer 1

You have two options. You can either render a template that uses a static PDF file or render a template that generates a PDF. I'd personally go with the first option.

This SO question is dedicated to how to write an HTML page that returns a PDF. You can use this in your jinja2 template.

Here's a quick and dirty way to get it done.

Or, you can create a jinja2 template which sets all the headers required to return a PDF and then say,

with a view function called static that returns the pdf.

You can read more about the second option at this flask snippet