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SVG, PNG, PDF converters using external tools as ImageMagick

Project description

http://ci.eionet.europa.eu/job/eea.converter-www/badge/icon http://ci.eionet.europa.eu/job/eea.converter-plone4/badge/icon http://ci.eionet.europa.eu/job/eea.converter-zope/badge/icon

Introduction

This package provides utilities to convert images and PDF files using ImageMagick. Also, toghether with collective.sendaspdf and pdftk users can download HTML pages as PDFs with custom cover support

Installation

Getting started

  1. Try http://localhost:8080/Plone/front-page/download.pdf

Customize output PDF

Cover

Provide custom browser:page called @@pdf.cover:

<browser:page
  for="my.package.interfaces.ICustomContent"
  name="pdf.cover"
  class=".app.pdfview.Cover"
  template="zpt/pdf.cover.pt"
  permission="zope2.View"
  />

Body

Provide custom browser:page called @@pdf.body:

<browser:page
  for="my.package.interfaces.ICustomContent"
  name="pdf.body"
  class=".app.pdfview.Body"
  template="zpt/pdf.body.pt"
  permission="zope2.View"
  />

Options

For PDF cover you’ll have to provide a named adapter like:

<adapter
  name="pdf.cover"
  for=" my.package.interfaces.ICustomContent"
  provides="collective.sendaspdf.interfaces.ISendAsPDFOptionsMaker"
  factory=".adapters.CoverOptionsMaker" />

For PDF body you’ll have to provide an unamed adapter like:

<adapter
  for=" my.package.interfaces.ICustomContent"
  provides="collective.sendaspdf.interfaces.ISendAsPDFOptionsMaker"
  factory=".adapters.OptionsMaker" />

Also add custom print.css for your needs. See more at collective.sendaspdf

Dependencies

  • pdfinfo to parse pdf metadata (part of the xpdf package):

    yum install xpdf (fedora)
    apt-get install xpdf (debian)
  • pdftk to generate a cover image from a pdf file:

    yum install pdftk (fedora)
    apt-get install pdftk (debian)
  • ImageMagick (6.3.7+):

    yum install ImageMagick
    apt-get install imagemagick
  • collective.sendaspdf

Source code

Latest source code (Zope 2 compatible):

Documentation

See the doc directory in this package.

API Doc

http://apidoc.eea.europa.eu/eea.converter-module.html

Funding

EEA - European Environment Agency (EU)

Changelog

6.7 - (2014-03-10)

  • Bug fix: Do not add table of content on PDF cover [voineali refs #18630]

  • Change: pass a doctype to the header pdf template in order to workaround wkhtmltopdf 0.12 issue which fails to insert the header without it [ichim-david refs #18550]

6.6 - (2014-01-21)

  • Bug fix: removed wrongly added blockquotes within README.rst [ichim-david refs #18064]

  • Feature: adding Sphinx-generated documentation in Page Template format [batradav refs #9502]

6.5 - (2013-10-22)

  • Bug fix: return first page on pdf to image conversion; refactor cover [simiamih refs #16799]

6.4 - (2013-10-07)

  • Feature: Added utility method to truncate text by the number of characters without cutting words at the end [voineali refs #16946]

  • Feature: Added utility method to convert relative urls to absolute urls [voineali refs #16946]

6.3 - (2013-10-04)

  • Bug fix: Fixed PDF cover asking for credentials for non-published documents [voineali refs #14904]

  • Feature: Added custom PDF html-header and html-footer in order to easily customize them (just override @@pdf.header and @@pdf.footer for your contexts) [voineali refs #16802]

6.2 - (2013-09-23)

  • Feature: Export HTML to PDF with custom cover (requires collective.sendaspdf) [voineali refs #14904]

6.1 - (2013-02-25)

  • Feature: added information for contributors [ciobabog refs #13892]

  • Add Windows support for close_fds parameter of Popen [erral #1]

6.0 - (2012-10-08)

  • Fixed dependencies, cleanup and make the package run on a clean Zope [ghicaale #5426]

1.1 - (2012-06-12)

  • Added watermark utility [szabozo0]

1.0 - (2012-03-05)

  • Initial release [voineali]

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