Django Typst¶

A Django template engine that uses Typst to render Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Installation and Configuration¶

The Django Typst engine is available from PyPI so you can install it with all the usual tools:

pip install django_typst
# or
uv add django_typst
# or
poetry add django_typst

Once installed, to make the Typst engine available, you need to add it to the TEMPLATES configuration in your settings.py. e.g.:

TEMPLATES = [
    ...
    {
        "BACKEND": "django_typst.TypstEngine",
        "NAME": "typst",
        "DIRS": [BASE_DIR / "templates"],
        "APP_DIRS": False,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "ROOT": None,
            "FONT_PATHS": [],
            "IGNORE_SYSTEM_FONTS": False,
            "PDF_STANDARD": "1.7",
            "PPI": None,
        }
    },
]

Note that this should be in addition to the standard Django template engine that was already there.

All the OPTIONS are... optional and the values above represent their defaults should no alternative be provided.

Option	Description	Default
ROOT	The root path to use for relative paths	`None`*
FONT_PATHS	Paths to look in for fonts	`[]`
IGNORE_SYSTEM_FONTS	Only consider fonts in the defined font paths	`False`
PDF_STANDARD	PDF revision to target (`1.7`, `a2-b`, `a3-b`)	`"1.7"`
PPI	Pixel Per Inch for included PNG	`None`

* The engine with use the folder the template is in as the root if one is not specified.

Note

The Django Typst Engine does support loading templates from app dirs with the APP_DIR configuration, but just like the jinja2 engine, it expects the in-app folder to have an engine specific name of typst. So if you want to have templates in app directories, please ensure they sit within a folder called typst.

Usage¶

To use this engine with one of the standard Django class based views you only need to set the template_engine class property to the value "typst". You should also set the content_type property to the value "application/pdf" to ensure the PDF is returned with the correct content type. For example, in a simple TemplateView it would look like this:

from django.views import generic

class MyTemplateView(generic.TemplateView):
  template_engine = "typst"
  content_type = "application/pdf"

  ...