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3.7 KiB
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94 lines
3.7 KiB
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INSTALLATION
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Decompress the print-n.x-n.n.tar.gz file into your Drupal modules
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directory.
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Enable the print module: Administer > Site building > Modules
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(admin/build/modules)
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PDF TOOL
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--------
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The print_pdf module requires the use of an external PDF generation tool.
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The currently supported tools are dompdf, TCPDF and wkhtmltopdf. Please
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note that any errors/bugs in those tools need to be reported and fixed by
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their maintainers. DO NOT report bugs in those tools in the print module's
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issue queue at Drupal.org.
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supported paths:
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* print module lib directory (usually modules/print/lib)
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* libraries directory (libraries)
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dompdf support:
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The dompdf tool produces results that are more faithful to the HTML
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printer-friendly page. Unicode is not supported (only ISO-8859-1).
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This tool is not supported and there are several known bugs that result
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from its incomplete implementation.
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1. Download dompdf from http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/downloads/list
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2. Extract the contents of the downloaded package into one of the
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supported paths.
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3. Check if dompdf_config.inc.php fits your installation. In 99% of cases,
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no changes are necessary, so just try to use it and only edit anything if
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the PDF generation fails.
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4. Grant write access to the lib/fonts directory to your webserver user.
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5. If you're using dompdf-0.5.1, delete the dompdf.php file as it contains
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a security vulnerability
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6. If you're using dompdf-0.6 or later, you can try to enable the Unicode
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support, but you'll need to add some Unicode fonts. See
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http://groups.google.com/group/dompdf/browse_thread/thread/9f7bc0162b04d5cf
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for further info on this.
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7. Check http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/ for further information.
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TCPDF support:
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TCPDF seems to be more actively developed than dompdf, but it's support
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for CSS is considerably worse. Unicode is supported (use of Unicode fonts
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result in HUGE files). Page header and footer are supported. This module
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requires TCPDF >= 4.0.000.
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1. Download TCPDF from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/
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2. Extract the contents of the downloaded package into one of the
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supported paths. There is no need to modify the config/tcpdf_config.php
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file, as the module self-configures TCPDF.
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3. Grant write access to the cache and images directories to your
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webserver user.
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4. Check http://tcpdf.sourceforge.net/ for further information.
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wkhtmltopdf support:
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1. Download wkhtmltopdf from
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http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list. You can choose to
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download the source and compile it or simply download the static binary,
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which doesn't require you to compile anything. Note that the compiled
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version may require a running X server (static uses patched libs that can
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work without one).
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2. Place the wkhtmltopdf executable into one of the supported paths.
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(usually libraries). You can also place a symbolic link to the executable.
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3. Check http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ for further information.
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UPDATE
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When updating from a previous version, just remove the print directory and
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follow the instructions above. Make sure that you backup any costumization
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to the print.tpl.php and print.css files.
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ROBOTS
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Even though it is possible to set per-page robots settings, the following
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can be placed in your robots.txt file after the User-agent line to prevent
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search engines from even asking for the page:
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Disallow: /print/
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Also, for updates from older versions (<=4.7.x-1.0 and <=5.x-1.2) which used
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node/nnn/print instead of print/nnn, the following lines can prevent
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requests from Google for the obsolete print URLs:
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Disallow: /*/print$
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Note that pattern matching in robots.txt is a Google extension (see
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http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40367 for more
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information).
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