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[Cris D.]

File Name: PDF writer
File Submitter: Cris D.
File Submitted: 18 Nov 2009
File Updated: 29 Nov 2009
File Category: 3rd Party Integration

/************
PDFWriter V1.0
Use: A snippet to export etomite pages as PDF
Cris D 2009-11-17
Etomite 1.1
based on the FreePDF class http://fpdf.com
*****/

Installation instructions:

• Unzip the contents of this zip archive.
• Create a folder called "pdf" in the root of your site.
• Upload the fpdf.php file to this folder.
• Upload the folders "images" and "font" to this site also.

• Now you should have:

siteroot > pdf > fpdf.php
siteroot > pdf > images > logo.gif
siteroot > pdf > images> pdficon.jpg
 siteroot > pdf > font > [contents of font folder]

The other files and folders in the fpdf16 are for reference only
and it contains many really good tutorials and samples of how to use it.

• Copy the contents of the pdfwriter.txt file and save it as a snippet in your etomite snippet library.
• Call the snippet in a page or in your site template.

There are 2 optional configurations:

• $image [0] || [1] (Default 1) : A switch to show an icon or a text link to get the PDF.
• $linkMessage = "Export to PDF";

In addition, there are many ways you can lay out the page - I will not be providing support for this - it's up to you.
There's enouogh help included in the tutorials and samples for you to work this out yourself.

Enjoy.

[updated snippet documentation to clarify the uploaded file structure]

Click here to download this file

Edited by Cris D., 29 November 2009 - 06:59 AM.

[Dean]

Hey Cris,
It doesn't parse snippets? it just shows [[snippetname]] or [!snippetname!] ? Have you come across this?
Cheers,
Dean

[Cris D.]

DeanC, on 03 June 2010 - 04:36 PM, said:

Hey Cris,
It doesn't parse snippets? it just shows [[snippetname]] or [!snippetname!] ? Have you come across this?
Cheers,
Dean

Yeah, i didn't wory about including this as it was really only a proof of concept. Anyway, I've built a few different external parsers (RSS is probably a good example) that can quite easily plug into this snippet code to parse all snippets prior to rendering the html markup as a PDF.