Products.SmartPrintNG 1.0.1

Conversion of Plone content to PDF, RTS, ODT, DOCX and WML

SmartPrintNG provides high-quality export to the most common office formats like PDF, RTF, ODT, DOCX and WML based on XSL-FO.

Features:

SmartPrintNG can convert the ‘content’ view of Plone documents into different formats:

• PDF

• ODT (native Openoffice format)

• RTF (Rich Text Format)

• DOCS (native Microsoft Office 2007 format)

• WML (older Microsoft Office 2003(?) XML-based format)

Other features:

• customizable templates per content-type

• customizable stylesheets per content-type

• configurable per-content-type content aggregation

• customizable conversion workflow chain e.g. to prepare the HTML e.g by removing links or generating link lists

• document-structure-driven conversion: e.g. the H1 tags can be used to enforce page-breaks in order to use sections starting with a H1 tag as marker for a new chapter.

Requirements:

• zopyx.convert V 1.0.0 or higher, see http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zopyx.convert

• BeautifulSoup

• Plone 2.5.X, Plone 3.0.X

• Javascript-enabled browser

• PIL (Python Imaging Library)

Installation:

• ensure that zopyx.convert is installed including all its dependencies

• unpack the SmartPrintNG archive inside the Products folder of your instance home

• add SmartPrintNG through the Add/Remove programms functionalty inside the Plone UI

Using SmartPrintNG:

• on Plone 2.5 you will a new PDF icon within your document actions. Clicking on it will open the SmartPrintNG control panel at the bottom of your current page.

• on Plone 3.0 you will see Export as new document action. Clicking on it will open the SmartPrintNG control panel at the bottom of your current page.

License

SmartPrintNG is published under LGNU Public License V 3.0 (LGPL 3.0) for non-commercial use (NGOs, charity organizations, educational institutions). Any commercial use requires a commercial license. Contact us for terms and conditions.

Copyright

SmartPrintNG is (C) 2007, 2008, ZOPYX Ltd. & Co KG, Charlottenstr. 37/1, D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany

Author

SmartPrintNG was written by Andreas Jung for ZOPYX Ltd. & Co. KG, Tuebingen, Germany.

Contact

ZOPYX Ltd & Co. KG

c/o Andreas Jung

Charottenstr. 37/1

D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany

E-mail: info at zopyx dot com

Web: http://www.zopyx.com or http://www.zopyx.de

CHANGES

1.0.1 (27.01.2008)

• fixed a manipulation error with internal anchors (having no ‘href’ attribute)

• escaping whitespaces (browser.deliver())

• license change: now using LGPL 3

• some stylesheet fine-tuning

• support for ‘redirect=1’ as URL parameter fixed

• provided adapter for extracting HTML from standard documents (basically for supporting document actions without the JS popup).

1.0.0 (30.09.2007)

• official 1.0.0 release

0.2.0 (08.09.2007)

• per-interface IHTMLExtractor support (backend and UI). Look at the demo folder (plone_adapters.py)

• fixed JS racing condition in smartprint.js

• better error handling in case of a backend failure

• german translation

• the new ZCML directive smartprintng:resourceDirectory allows you to register all templates (suffix .pt) and stylesheets (suffix .css) within the given directory for one or more interfaces. See demo/configure.zcml and the whole demo directory for examples.

• templates, stylesheets and FO related stylesheets completely configurable on a per-interface basis

• moved default styles and default FO styles to ‘resources’ directory

• using the BeautifulSoup module for HTML manipulations

0.1.1 (19.07.2007)

• Plone 2.5 support

0.1.0 (13.07.2007)

• initial release