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This is an old revision of WikkaToPDF made by DarTar on 2005-04-22 14:33:19.

 

Exporting Wiki content to PDF


See also: WikkaFilters
 


I'm opening this page for a prelilminary discussion on how to generate PDFs from Wiki content.

An appropriate implementation of this feature would probably be a /pdf handler allowing a user to generate a PDF from a given page.
(More generally, an /export handler could give the user the choice about the preferred WikkaFilters export format). There are several GPL-licensed Java and php solution for generating PDFs on the fly.

Some useful references


Discussion
Hi James. Any progress on generating a PDF file output from wikka? -- Mike Bowen (GmBowen)

http://www.jamesmcl.co.uk/fpdf/try_pdf.php
As you can see it picks the Page Name and Content fromm the database alright. The script needs a little refinement to format the page layout correctly and as I said earlier to restrict the results set from the sl query. The code is below.

<?php
define('FPDF_FONTPATH','font/');
require('mysql_table.php');

class PDF extends PDF_MySQL_Table
{
function Header()
{
	//Title
	$this->SetFont('Arial','',18);
	$this->Cell(0,6,'Wikka Output To PDF',0,1,'C');
	$this->Ln(10);
	//Ensure table header is output
	parent::Header();
}
}

//Connect to database
mysql_connect('localhost','user','password');
mysql_select_db('dbname');


$pdf=new PDF();
$pdf->Open();
$pdf->AddPage();
//First table: put all columns automatically
$pdf->Table('select tag,body from main_wikka_pages');
$pdf->AddPage();
//Second table: specify 2 columns,
$pdf->AddCol('tag',50,'tag','C');
$pdf->AddCol('body',50,'body','C');
$prop=array('HeaderColor'=>array(255,150,100),
			'color1'=>array(210,245,255),
			'color2'=>array(255,255,210),
			'padding'=>2);
//$pdf->Table('select tag,body from main_wikka_pages order by tag limit 0,10',$prop);
$pdf->Output(wikka,I);
?>


Thanks James. I've got an undergrad programmer hired for a few weeks in May....and I found the pdf generating code for wikini as well (which is now only in a google cache).....so I'm probably going to have him try and get pdf output working (using a handler). I found a "footnoting/endnoting" action for wikini too, so I'll get him working on that also. When either are working I'll post them up (um, I hope this is okay and you don't feel like your efforts are being hi-jacked.....some people are really touchy about such things, but I really do need PDF output from wikka.). Cheers. --GmBowen


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