Print version of a view (pdf?)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Mahara |
Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It would be good to be able export a view in a way that was suitable for good quality printing, so that a resume view created in Mahara could then be used to create a printed resume for posting. Export to pdf would also allow the resume to be e-mailed.
Changed in mahara: | |
assignee: | nobody → Stacey Walker (stacey) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
milestone: | none → 1.4.0 |
Changed in mahara: | |
milestone: | 1.4.0 → none |
François Marier (fmarier) wrote : | #2 |
There is an html2ps package in Debian that could be useful in producing a PDF...
Changed in mahara: | |
assignee: | Stacey Walker (stacey) → nobody |
Changed in mahara: | |
assignee: | nobody → Stacey Walker (stacey) |
François Marier (fmarier) wrote : | #3 |
Gregor also suggests using eZ Components for this in bug 857368.
Melissa Newman (melissa-l) wrote : | #4 |
Once the print css file is working correctly, the user can just select a PDF as the printer. If a large number of pages need to be exported, this would not be an option, but it will work for just a couple of pages at a time.
Although, the issue of printing a collection should be addressed. Right now a user has to print each individual page.
tags: |
added: pdf removed: mahara-eduforge-feature-request |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: printing |
Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner) wrote : | #5 |
also see bug #1075358
Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner) wrote : | #6 |
and bug #692769
Robert Lyon (robertl-9) wrote : | #7 |
Looking again at the print to pdf idea again.
I'm thinking that using wkhtmltopdf
http://
In combination with the php wrapper phpwkhtmltopdf
https:/
PROS:
- Both are open source
- The pdf creation will be done by the underlying server so as not to overwork the mahara system.
- wkhtmltopdf has packages for debian / ubuntu / windows / osx
- wkhtmltopdf is an established system and is being actively worked on.
- allows pdf creation of a page generated from url or from html markup passed to it
- will allow a collection to be created as one pdf and have index page as first page (if static version is installed, see CONS)
- could be possible to create a resume pdf from all the pieces of information in the resume and profile sections.
CONS:
- need to install wkhtmltopdf separately from installing mahara (basic install no harder than installing something like elasticsearch)
- need to install the static version to get access to all the goodies like index page creation, adding hyperlinks in page creation etc. and this is a non trivial process
Robert Lyon (robertl-9) wrote : | #8 |
Another option could be tcpdf http://
Aaron Wells (u-aaronw) wrote : | #9 |
I'd like to add that one positive side-benefit of print-to-PDF is that we could presumably use the same technique to generate thumbnails of users' pages.
Changed in mahara: | |
assignee: | Stacey Walker (stacey) → nobody |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
Changed in mahara: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Stacey, would you like to keep this allocated to you or should we unallocate it?