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by Olha Pelishok last modified 2011-06-29
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Released on 2011-04-05 by Zest Software, Vincent Pretre for Plone 4.0 under GPL - GNU General Public License available for All platforms.
Software development stage: stable
An open source product for Plone to download or email a page seen by the user as a PDF file.

collective.sendaspdf is an open source product for Plone that allows downloading the page seen by the user as a PDF file. It also provide a form to send the page by e-mail (a screenshot of the current
page in a PDF format being joined to the e-mail).

It relies on two products to generate the PDF files:

  • xhtml2pdf: http://www.xhtml2pdf.com/
  • wkhtmltopdf: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

The site manager can easily chose which solution he prefers for the generation.

Configuring

Go to the Plone control panel. You will find a 'Send as PDF' link that sends you to the products configuration page.

This page proposes a few settings:

  • the tool used to render the PDF files.
  • the directory where the PDF files are stored.
  • the sentence used as salt when hashing the user's emails (this hash is used to know which files a user can access)
  • the name used in the mail for the PDF file.
  • a default title/body for the mails.

For wkhtmltopdf user, two extra options are available:

  • always use the print CSS to render the PDF.
  • use the print CSS for a given set of objects.

xhtml2pdf always use the print CSS.

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