Create PDF
 

I'm currently working on a big project and I thought I'd make a request in case someone is working on something similar...

Anyway, I would like to enable users to create PDF files out of threads (main post). If you are working on something like this give me a holler.:)

thank you

wouldn't there be licensing issues with adobe?

i belive so, at least i think, the server or forum owner would have to have a system to generate the PDF"s too

haven`t worked on this myself, but I saw this at sourceforge the other day, and some investigation into this might help you some...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php

<a href="http://www.pdflib.com" target="_blank">PDFLib</a> could also be helpful, but is rather expensive.

Contrary to the frustratingly common impression, Adobe does not own the PDF format. For instance, OS X can produce PDF files directly from any program that can print. It stands for Portable Document Format...Adobe just adds a bunch of useless garbage like notes and interactivity that make it more of a series of web pages than an electronic document.

^^ thanks for clearing that up fliburt :)

that's exactly the one I have saved on file ... I will eventually get around to this if no one jumps on the project.

Some of you may ask why PDF? PDF will allow users to download content in a printed format that will look the same across many platforms ... browsers, pda, web appliances, etc, etc... a feature like this would be GREAT for businesses.

Yep. Such a feature would be deffo great. The main question is if you want to keep the original layout (eg. Style) within the PDF. I think this could become somewhat difficult.

Something like the "print version"-thread display might be much easier to convert.
When I got enough spare time (which currenlty isn't the case) I think i'll play around a bit with this ...

I am more interested in the "formatting of content" that is submitted ... not the layout of the site.

Hello,

Any news on that? I really would like to see a hack which allows me to print threads as pdf :)

*bump* We're looking to find an option so we can PDF an entire thread in one document rather than PDFing one page of the thread at a time...

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.

I have utilised PDF-PHP for creating all sorts of documents: it should lend itself to this faily simply, but would require some extension to be able to deal with more formatting than just Headings, Bold and Underline, and inserting images: however, that much would be enough to get a thread PDF created.

It would be a trivial exercise, but I don't have the time in the next forseeable future. Anyone with a good PHP brain should be able to do it: if they have 2 or 3 full days to spend on it...

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