aws.pdfbook

by Alter Way Solutions — last modified Feb 16, 2011 02:05 AM

Download Plone content views as PDF

Project Description

aws.pdfbook

Description

aws.pdfbook is a component for Plone 3 or Plone 4 that enables to download content rendered to PDF. It provides support for default content types. Third party content type authors and integrators may add support to their personal content types through dedicated Zope 3 named views.

When downloading a Folder or a Topic/Collection, all subcontents is included in the PDF document but not recursively.

Warning

htmldoc requires ISO latin 9 encoded HTML. As a consequence, this component is suitable only to site in western european languages. We cannot support Hebrew, Arabic, (...) as long as htmldoc does not support UTF-8.

Requirements

The following softwares should be installed:

  • Plone 3 or 4
  • htmldoc (required)
  • recode (optional)

Installation

Instance wide

In your buildout.cfg file:

[buildout]
...
eggs =
  ...
  aws.pdfbook

We assume that:

  • The site charset is utf-8
  • The server buffer for downloading has 40000 bytes.

Otherwise you can change these default values in your zope.conf or in buildout.cfg like this:

[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
...
zope-conf-additional =
  ...
  <product-config aws.pdfbook>
  # Your site charset (default: utf-8)
  site-charset utf-8
  # The download buffer bytes size (default: 40000)
  download-buffer-size 40000
  </product-config>
  ...

Note

Increasing the buffer size may speed up download but at the expense of a bigger memory footprint.

Plone site

In your Plone site go to the 'Site Setup' page and click on the 'Add/Remove Products' link.

Choose aws.pdfbok (check its checkbox) and click the 'Install' button.

The go as soon as possible to the PDF Book configuration panel and configure according to your system settings and your layout preferences.

More particularly, you may change default pdfbook options. See the pdfbook documentation for the various available options.

Other setups

It is strongly recommanded to use linking with UID in your visual editor preferences. Otherwise images may not display in topics prints.

Developers

Customizing default templates in ZMI

Open your Plone site in ZMI, then the portal_view_customization object.

Click on a link printlayout that suits the interface of the content items you want to customize.

Change the template as you prefer...

Add a template for your content types

Assuming you have a personal content type that implements the myproduct.interfaces.IMyContentType interface, You must add a view like this one:

<browser:page
   name="printlayout"
   for="myproduct.interfaces.IMyContentType"
   layer="aws.pdfbook.interfaces.IAWSPDFBookLayer"
   permission="zope.Public"
   template="templates/mycontenttype.pt"
   />

Keep the following attributes as above:

  • name="printlayout"
  • layer="aws.pdfbook.interfaces.IAWSPDFBookLayer"
  • permission="zope.Public"

Examples for standard content types are provided in the browser/transformers.zcml configuration and associated files.

Otherwise aws.pdfbook provides a default template that may or may not fit with paper layout.

Important

Your personal template:

  • must provide a "body" macro that renders the body of your content.
  • the title of your content must be in an <h1> element.
  • must be careful with HTML limitations of htmldoc.

If the default layout for personal or third party content types is somehow awful, you may blacklist such content types in the configuration panel.

Contributors

The subversion repository for this component is https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/aws.pdfbook .

The development kit comes with a buildout.cfg for the latest Plone stable version.

Please don't forget to file your changes in the docs/HISTORY.txt file.

Support

Please use the tracker at http://plone.org/products/aws.pdfbook/issues

Credits

http://www.materis.com/template/imgs_fr/logo.gif

Changelog

1.0.0b1

  • i18nisation and added french translation [glenfant]
  • Unit tests [glenfant]
  • Cleaned up useless code from Products.PDFBook [glenfant]

1.0.0a1

  • Initial release [glenfant]

Current Release

No stable release available yet.

All Releases

Version Released Description Compatibility Licenses Status
1.0.0b1 Better Plone 4 support More about this release…
Plone 4
Plone 3
 GPL beta

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