A client has requested a feature of a new website whereby they can select (checkboxes) from a list of all available pages, and then output a PDF containing all of those selected pages.
Can PDF Creator be used to iterate through a list of nodes and output PDFs programatically?
Does it have any ability to generate one PDF from multiple pages?
So far I've managed to output a single PDF based on various collections of pages (tested with different criteria) as per the example above. I now need to tie this in with our search engine so the user can output a PDF driven by search results returned - that should be simple enough at this stage.
Just an update. Integrated a Faceted Search with PDF Creator so user can run a search on over 100 nodes by various facets, then the resulting list can be output as a PDF. The User can also select other (non-searchable) generic content pages via a checkbox interface and add those nodes to the PDF.
All works lovely. One last thing I need to to is save the generated PDF to the server and provide a link for download (which will be sent via an automated email) for those users on an iPad. Is it possible to save the PDF output to the local server or can it only output to the client's browser?
Multiple Page Output
Hi,
Great package by the way!
A client has requested a feature of a new website whereby they can select (checkboxes) from a list of all available pages, and then output a PDF containing all of those selected pages.
Adam
One PDF from multiple pages yes.
Multiple PDFs - not ootb, but you could hack something together.
Let me know if you need to do the latter and i'll suggest how.
Thanks Darren I'll keep you posted with progress.
So far I've managed to output a single PDF based on various collections of pages (tested with different criteria) as per the example above. I now need to tie this in with our search engine so the user can output a PDF driven by search results returned - that should be simple enough at this stage.
Hi
Just an update. Integrated a Faceted Search with PDF Creator so user can run a search on over 100 nodes by various facets, then the resulting list can be output as a PDF. The User can also select other (non-searchable) generic content pages via a checkbox interface and add those nodes to the PDF.
All works lovely. One last thing I need to to is save the generated PDF to the server and provide a link for download (which will be sent via an automated email) for those users on an iPad. Is it possible to save the PDF output to the local server or can it only output to the client's browser?
Cheers
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