Download Thread as PDF

What this hack does:
This hack creates an new thread tool.
Download the complete thread as an PDF.

Credits:

Julien Mourot, Renato A. C. & MaRTy.
Developers of the 'html2fpdf' lib used for this hack.

Jacqieline of e-Dot.nl for creating
icons for this hack.

KirbyDE for his code modification for this hack.
Now it doesn't need code modifications anymore!

Details:

1 plugin
1 new file
1 new phrase
1 template modification
7 new templates

Installation:

See install.txt in the zip package

Notes:

Becarefull with editting the pdf templates!
Due to limitations of the html2fpdf lib, the templates where kept a simple as possible to create a working an nice pdf.

Also this is my first 'big' hack, so if i've made a mistake somewhere, i'm sorry. Please report it so I can fix it.

This hack is currently in beta stage...


Don't forget to hit the 'Install' button!

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by magnus

I got bored, so here's a confirmed working version for 3.6.7PL1. This has only been tested using PHP5. It will not work on PHP4.

I've packaged it up as a product and it requires no template creation, edits, etc. Everything is handled from within the product.

First, uninstall the previous version. Files, phrases, templates. Everything.

Next, unpack the attached file and upload the contents of the forum directory to your forum root. Then simply import the product XML and you're done.

* Edit: Well, according to vBorg I'm exceeding my attachments quota. So, apparently I can't attach any files.

Thanks vBorg!

So, until that gets resolved here's a direct URL. Download

Does it work for other languages?

[Quantnet]

magnus,

Installed without a single problem. When i view threads that have tex bbcode, it does not render images properly...it will just show a square box with red cross in it.

This is in Firefox and Opera browsers.
In IE 7, I have this error FPDF error: Unsupported image type: cgi?/partial

Look like pdfthread.php does not handle the mimetex.cgi script well.

[Quantnet]

Also, when i tried to use pdf thread on a thread with pictures...http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=845

i had these error
Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0 in /html2fpdf/fpdf.php on line 2201

[magnus]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

Also, when i tried to use pdf thread on a thread with pictures...http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=845

i had these error
Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0 in /html2fpdf/fpdf.php on line 2201

When I attempt to view as a PDF for that thread, I receive the error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1273902197 bytes) in /home/quantnet/public_html/forum/html2fpdf/fpdf.php on line 2201

Which appears, to me, that your PHP memory allocation block is too small.

[magnus]

Upon further testing, the only "problem" I can seem to find is that pictures will display as a red X. Other than that, the complete document is properly rendered into PDF format.

I'm going to take a quick look at the picture issue.

[Quantnet]

^^ I up it to 256MB which is the maximum of my VPS plan. That should not be a problem with the memory anymore.

When I use the View printable thread, everything appears fine, pictures, latex....

[magnus]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Does it work for other languages?

What do you mean? There's really no language dependency (that I can see). There's only one phrase, which can be translated if desired.

[Quantnet]

Here is a thread with latex which you can test the Show Printable Version and Show PDF
http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=410

[magnus]

Ok, the problem appears to be inherent with html2fpdf. I've gone ahead and basically written a new hacking using a different set of classes/libraries which seems to function much better. Once I'm confident it's stable, I'll get it released. This shouldn't take more than a day, if that.

For the time being, I've gone ahead and removed the previous archive as it will never work 100% without rewriting the backend.

[Quantnet]

Awesome magnus.
I'll look forward to it.