I have a django web application which creates an image on the POST call and I want this image to be inserted into a word document that the user can download.
Currently the function that creates the image is something like this:
def create_image():
results = {}
plot, axes = plt.subplots(num_plots, 1,figsize=(6, 4))
# code to create figure here
fig = plot.get_figure()
img_in_memory = BytesIO()
fig.savefig(img_in_memory, format='png')
image = base64.b64encode(img_in_memory.getvalue())
image = image.decode(settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET)
plot.get_figure().clf()
results['image'] = image
results['results_intro'] = 'Report introduction'
return results
And the function that creates the document is something like:
def create_doc(results):
docx_title = "report.docx"
document = Document()
section = document.sections[0]
header = section.header
paragraph = header.paragraphs[0]
document.add_paragraph()
paragraph = document.add_paragraph("%s" % date.today().strftime('%B %d, %Y'))
paragraph.alignment = WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH.RIGHT
document.add_paragraph()
document.add_paragraph('Start Report,')
run = document.add_paragraph().add_run('RE: Name DD/MMM/YYYY')
run.font.bold = True
run.font.underline = True
document.add_paragraph(results['results_intro'])
document.add_paragraph()
document.add_picture(results['score_image'])
f = BytesIO()
document.save(f)
length = f.tell()
f.seek(0)
response = HttpResponse(
f.getvalue(),
content_type='application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document'
)
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=' + docx_title
response['Content-Length'] = length
return response
Currently the image is just displayed as a long string in the word document - how do I get it to be displayed as an image?
