Posted by Egon Bianchet on February 6, 2007 at 8:53am
Let's plan an informal roadmap for Pdfview.
First of all, I'd release asap 4.7.x-1.2 and 5.x-1.1 with the latest fixes to the image output and bugfixes (116065, 115595).
Then I'd like to discuss about what are people expecting from this module before going ahead with changes and features like 116166, 101032 and 115562.
Some discussion is also needed to decide how to deal with CCK, tables, and caching (see 97859).
Ideas, thoughts?
Comments
First step
I released 4.7.x-1.2 and 5.x-1.1 with the following bugfixes:
Thanks to Tobias Maier.
fix & enhance tcpdf
The value of pdfview raises and falls with the quality of tcpdf
I think a proper pdfview development is not possible without enhancing and fixing bugs at tcpdf itself.
So we should look into tcpdf every time we see something which needs to be improved and should try to give that change back to the tcpdf community.
But what I don't know is how active the development of tcpdf is... So maybe we need to add our own version of tcpdf to the drupal cvs repository. But this should be the last option if we see that there is no response to fix bugs at tcpdf.
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Book rendering
I Just enabled pdf view. I am very impressed by it's functionality. At first glance I only see one feature that is not already mentioned.
When you create a pdf of a book view it shows all the items in the book, which is great. Unfortunately the links in the pdf point back to the drupal site. Although this is a nice feature in some cases, it would be great if it could point to the page within the pdf.
Mike O.
http://www.visaamigo.com/
Seems "printer-friendly
Seems "printer-friendly version" eliminates book navigation links (found at the bottom of book pages). I would imagine that in many cases, the print version of a page is exactly what pdfview should use. Is there a way it could toggle/select which version to use, screen of print?
Also, +1 for the other links comment.
CCK & Fieldgroups
A feature I currently need for a project is the proper handling of CCK fields and fieldgroups.
I am using:
- Drupal 5.1 (Upgrade to 5.2 is planned, but later in the project. Want to have all the requested features in first)
- PDFView 1.1
I have several content types with each several fieldgroups, and in each fieldgroup several CCK field.
The output to PDF is working perfectly, except...
A fieldgroup is currently seen as "$one" element, and thus written to the PDF file as such. All field labels and field contents within a fieldgroup are concatenated, resulting in one long string in the PDF file.
Has someone already looked into this? Any solution already available?
Otherwise I have to look into it since I need this feature anyway for my project. The client wants the PDF download. All help is welcome as I have to dive into other modules too and time is going to be an issue.
Temporary solution
In the theme_pdfview_node function I added following lines
$content = str_replace('<legend>', '<legend><b>', $content);$content = str_replace('</legend>', '</b></legend>'."\n", $content);
$content = str_replace('</div></div></div>', '</div></div></div>'."\n", $content);
With this the fieldgroups are showed properly. It might not be the best general solution, but currently I can live with it. The fieldgroup title is shown in bold and the fields are shown beneath each other. I will fine-tune this further later on in my project.
Hello,Where is the
Hello,
Where is the theme_pdfview_node? I'm using the print module for Drupal 6.0 but I can't find the theme. What is the equivalent?
Thanks