How to generate PDF files

Tuesday 05 August 2008 11:52:35 pm

Hi,
I need generate PDF files from Exponential system. But, except the technical manual has a lengthy reference section on template PDF function, I can't find any other resource to tell me how to actually build a PDF template; how to link the url which point to the PDF file on the site..etc.

I also have tried use the PDF export in the admin interface:
Setup->PDF export.

Do a New PDF Export, set it as export structure:tree, and export type: generate on the fly and I set the classes objects which I want to be exported.

After hit ok. I click the link of the tile, with a link "/ezwebin_site_admin/pdf/edit/3/generate". I got a blank page. I checked the apache error log file, it says: [Wed Aug 06 14:50:09 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Client denied by server configuration: d:/ez3/ezwebin_site_admin.

I just want to generate PDF file for certain content object. Wish anyone can help me on this.
Thanks.

Certified eZ Publish 4 developer looking for develop information & collaboration.

Monday 11 August 2008 3:05:02 am

Thanks for the replying.

Now I can generate the PDF file for a node. But, by default, it just take the source code of the page and make it a PDF file. There are many html comment in the source code, e.g.

<!-- START: including template:...-->
....
<!-- STOP: including template: ...-->

And, of course, the actual content is not in the format I want to be displayed. I knew there is a way for define the template for the PDF. But, it seems there is few resources on this topic. I found this: http://ez.no/Exponential/documentation/incoming/pdf_export_tutorial. It seems not completed, since it under the "incoming" of the documentation.

I want to know, what is the mechanism in the Exponential for creating PDF template.

And, I also want to know how to generate PDF file from a sequence of nodes of a sub tree.

Thank you very much.

Certified eZ Publish 4 developer looking for develop information & collaboration.

Monday 18 August 2008 8:22:00 pm

Hi,
Thanks. Yes, after turn off the debug, the tags are gone.

Other things I don't know is that how to show the related and embed objects in the PDF? I have a full node view which use the code above to generate the PDF, but there is a related object in the node, which shows just a link.

I think it was load the default template in /design/standard/templates/content/pdf/full.tpl. I checked this file, and does this because it calls the content_pdf_gui with the view set to "text_linked"?
Can Exponential shows PDF format of a form?

Another question is, can I generate a PDF file based on a serial nodes with each node as a page in the PDF?

Thank you very much.

Certified eZ Publish 4 developer looking for develop information & collaboration.

Tuesday 09 September 2008 6:28:51 am

Hi Wei,

sorry, but I use the (third party) FPDF extension, which is, sad enough, not even UTF-8 compatible... But since I use it to export graphical stuff, it didn't matter for me.

Sorry I'm not of much help on this topic,

Pascal

Friday 23 January 2009 12:28:41 am

Hi,

I am new to Exponential and using version 4. I want to format the pdf generation template. I have followed following article.
http://ez.no/Exponential/documentation/incoming/pdf_export_tutorial

But I couldn't get the result.

Following is the link I have created.

<a href="{concat('/content/pdf/',$node.object.main_node.node_id)|ezurl}" >Export to PDF</a>

Following is the code I have updated in the override.ini.append.php in the settings.
[full_pdf]
Source=node/view/pdf.tpl
MatchFile=node/view/full/pdf.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[class_identifier]=9

But there is no class as ID = 9. So How do I need to create that class?

Please help...

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