Design templates for PDF exports

Friday 05 December 2003 6:47:26 am

Hi,

I recently installed ezPublish 3.3.0-1 just to try it out.

I found out that articles (or whatever you select) can be exported to PDF. Very nice!
But is it also possible to create a designtemplate for it? So I can use backgrounds, images, etc. which I can print and 'view the website (or just the news articles) on paper'?
Or, if this feature is not already present (haven't found it), will it be in the future? Or is it possible I create something to make this happen?

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Btw, I also tried to install a 'plain' version, but no PDF Export was available. How can I add it manually?

-- Mark

Sunday 21 December 2003 1:35:32 am

Hi,
PDF export ist based on Templates, too (info from ez).
These were not included in the 2 beta release (at least, i didn't find them either).

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com

Monday 22 December 2003 1:39:55 am

Kåre, do you have any idea how soon is possible? :)

Days, weeks maybe? And on what section of this website can this tutorial be found?

Thanx!!

Wednesday 24 December 2003 1:06:26 am

Kåre, did you have the time to finish the PDF tutorial?

-- Mark

Friday 02 January 2004 7:11:41 am

Hi

I'm sorry for the delay, but the days before xmas with the 3.2-4 and 3.3 release where quite buisy.

http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/incoming/pdf_export_tutorial

More on the pdf specific template functions will come later, and also see comments in original pdf templates.

--
Kåre Høvik

Kåre Høvik

Friday 02 January 2004 9:35:13 am

Hi back again, Kaare.
We've been waiting for the PDF docu... but you deserved some holidays ;)

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com

Friday 23 January 2004 6:52:40 am

Anyone?

Friday 30 January 2004 6:07:07 am

Hi

Is the sited access/design you added the PDF templates for the same site access you're making the PDF export from ?

I added a new feature in trunk in rev. 4942 for generating PDF's on the fly. It's a new view in the content module, and can be accessed using content/pdf/<nodeID>. User roles must be set up just like when using content/edit and content/view.

To get the new feature in 3.3, in the root of your eZ publish installation, run :
svn merge -r 4941:4942 http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/trunk

--
Kåre Høvik.

Kåre Høvik

Friday 13 February 2004 5:36:07 am

Hmm, just installed the latest ezPublish release, but still the problem remains... And this class 9, it just doesn't exist. Guess that's why the designtemplates don't work.

Kare, you refer to class 9 in 'override.ini.append'* (in http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/incoming/pdf_export_tutorial):

[documentation]
Source=node/view/pdf.tpl
MatchFile=content/pdf/documentation.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[class]=9

But, since class 9 does not exist...... How do I create it? Or, if the class exists, but the class id has to be different, please let us know...

-- Mark

(* By the way, the file 'override.ini.append' does not exist in /settings/override/, but it does in /settings/siteaccess/corporate/, (corporate, because I installed a default page). Anyway, should this be the correct path?)

Friday 20 February 2004 5:49:26 am

>The class numbers in the tutorial is just examples. Please replace them with existing class ID's you would like to create overrides for

Okay. And, do I need to create a new class? I mean, what do I need to do to get these PDF exports to work with a nice design? Please explain it to me, I'd really appreciate it.

-- Mark