plone.pdfexport

Provides PDF export functionality for Plone content.

Features

• Exports Documents, Event, News items and other custom content.
• Can be customized via CSS in the PDF Export control panel.
• Long tables which will be rendered on more than one page, will have the thead repeated on every page.
• One can use Plone body tag CSS classes to define CSS rules for specific Plone content.

This add-on is based on the great WeasyPrint library.

Translations

This product has been translated into

• english
• german

Installation

Install plone.pdfexport by adding it to your buildout:

[buildout]

...

eggs =
    plone.pdfexport

and then running bin/buildout

Note: for Python 2 (Plone 5.1) you have to pin some packages:

weasyprint = 0.42.3 cairocffi = 0.9.0 tinycss2 = 0.6.1 soupsieve = 1.9.6 cssselect2 = 0.2.2

Usage

After installing the add-on you can call the "aspdf" view on any Plone content.

http://localhost:8080/Plone/news/aspdf

for testing, you can add the GET parameter "html=1" to see the HTML version before it get rendered into a PDF.

http://localhost:8080/Plone/news/aspdf?html=1

We provide portrait and landscape mode with separate page setting for each mode:

@page {
    margin: 2.75cm 1.4cm 1.4cm 1.4cm;
    size: landscape;
    @top-center {
        font-size:12px;
        color:#666666;
        content: "Beautiful Plone content, deserves a beautiful PDF export!";
    }
    @bottom-left {
        font-size:12px;
        color:#666666;
        content: "provided by derico.de";
    }
    @bottom-right {
        font-size:12px;
        color:#666666;
        content: "Page " counter(page);
    }

}

You can set which mode is the default. To use a different mode, you can add a request parameter:

http://localhost:8080/Plone/front-page/aspdf?mode=landscape
http://localhost:8080/Plone/front-page/aspdf?mode=portait

Authors

This add-on was build by Derico [MrTango].

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/plone/plone.pdfexport/issues
• Source Code: https://github.com/plone/plone.pdfexport

Support

If you are having issues, please let us know.

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.