PDF Export

Friday 09 January 2009 2:06:15 am

Hi All,

probably a stupid question yet I cannot get my head around: I'd like to offer PDF Generation for certain pages and therefore am playing around with PDF Exports in Setting.

But I just dont understand how to proceed. So, firstly, all PDF functions are marked with depreciated but I could not find a "successor", so shall I still build on the PDF functions?

Secondly, when created a PDF export what's the point? How do I re-use it, build it into the site? Could you give me a hint? an example how to implement the PDF exports into a site?

Sorry, sitting on my wires here....

Thanks
Anita

Sunday 01 February 2009 6:21:49 am

Hi Jérôme,
thanks a lot for your help. Although I hoped there might be a "ready-to-go" ez solution, I'm more than happy to have a starting point.

Will digg into it.
Thanks a lot
Anita

Saturday 07 February 2009 6:38:59 am

Bonjour Franck :-)

The main idea is to develop something in PHP using TCPDF or any other PHP PDF library (Zend_PDF, FPDF...). You could that by developping a module or just a simple template operator.
TCPDF supports xHTML, so it can be possible to build the PDF from within a template with a raw layout outputed with <i>application/pdf</i> mimetype (see layout.ini for that). Let's say that you have developped an operator named <i>pdf_output</i> which builds your PDF in PHP from xHTML content (see TCPDF examples at http://tcpdf.org). In your template, you can bufferize your generated HTML content with the <i>{set-block}</i> function. So all you have to do is :

{set-block variable=$myContent}
    {* Add you content here, with all your fetches, includes, etc... *}
{/set-block}
{pdf_output($myContent)}

Of course, your operator is supposed to return the PDF stream generated by TCPDF.

Saturday 11 July 2009 1:40:53 pm

Hi
TCPDF is indeed compatible with Unicode.
I also recently found a very promising and interesting extension named ParadoxPDF (http://projects.ez.no/paradoxpdf). You can use it within the template engine (just like the old eZPDF). It uses a small Java application to generate PDF from XHTML.

By the way, eZ Publish 4.2 will embed eZ Components 2009.1 which have a PDF component (through the Document component). Apparently we'll be able to use it in the template engine too. 4.2 is planned for september 29th 2009

Thursday 12 November 2009 5:36:55 am

Hi There,I gotta admit I'm still not really done with my PDF generation. However, currently I'm thinking about PDF security, DRM etc., trying to answer how to secure my PDF content? e.g. from copying text and/or pictures, changing content, passing the document on etc.etc. now my questions: do you have any experience with securing PDF files generated out of your content management system? Thanks a lot Anita

Saturday 14 November 2009 7:40:08 am

The content generated by ezOE (online editor) is always Valid.

If you cannot make a valid HTML pages try to use Html Tidy filter operator before passing html to paradoxpdf.

What do you mean by "I cannot remember how resource angry paradox can be" ?

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Saturday 14 November 2009 4:36:35 pm

If you read paradoxpdf documentation, JRE is a requirement just as for ezfind.

Unfortunately i dont have time to benchmark the application. But i will try to make one when i can.

Paradoxpdf steels the simplest way to convert ezpublish content to pdf in a linux environment. "Simplest" because you just deal with html and CSS.

To understand this just try to use TCPDF, ZendPDF or other php libs to convert html content to PDF.

What make you say that the extension embeds a jetty SE ?

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