plone.pdfexport 2.1

PDF export of Plone content based on the weasyprint library.

plone.pdfexport

Provides PDF export functionality for Plone content.

Features

• Exports Documents, Event, News items and other custom content.

• Can be customized via CSS in the PDF Export control panel.

• Long tables which will be rendered on more than one page, will have the thead repeated on every page.

• One can use Plone body tag CSS classes to define CSS rules for specific Plone content.

This add-on is based on the great WeasyPrint library.

Translations

This product has been translated into

• english

• german

Installation

Install plone.pdfexport by adding it to your buildout:

[buildout]

...

eggs =
    plone.pdfexport

and then running bin/buildout

Note: for Python 2 (Plone 5.1) you have to pin some packages:

weasyprint = 0.42.3 cairocffi = 0.9.0 tinycss2 = 0.6.1 soupsieve = 1.9.6 cssselect2 = 0.2.2

Usage

After installing the add-on you can call the “aspdf” view on any Plone content.

http://localhost:8080/Plone/news/aspdf

for testing, you can add the GET parameter “html=1” to see the HTML version before it get rendered into a PDF.

http://localhost:8080/Plone/news/aspdf?html=1

We provide portrait and landscape mode with separate page setting for each mode:

@page {
    margin: 2.75cm 1.4cm 1.4cm 1.4cm;
    size: landscape;
    @top-center {
        font-size:12px;
        color:#666666;
        content: "Beautiful Plone content, deserves a beautiful PDF export!";
    }
    @bottom-left {
        font-size:12px;
        color:#666666;
        content: "provided by derico.de";
    }
    @bottom-right {
        font-size:12px;
        color:#666666;
        content: "Page " counter(page);
    }

}

You can set which mode is the default. To use a different mode, you can add a request parameter:

http://localhost:8080/Plone/front-page/aspdf?mode=landscape
http://localhost:8080/Plone/front-page/aspdf?mode=portait

Authors

This add-on was build by Derico [MrTango].

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/plone/plone.pdfexport/issues

• Source Code: https://github.com/plone/plone.pdfexport

Support

If you are having issues, please let us know.

License

The project is licensed under the GPLv2.

Contributors

• Maik Derstappen, [e-mail]

Changelog

2.1 (2022-11-04)

• fix python_requires definition [MrTango]

• require Py >=3.7 and remove restapi down pinning [MrTango]

2.0 (2021-10-26)

• Provide both page mode’s (landscape and portrait) with a default setting and switch thru a request mode parameter [MrTango]

1.1 (2021-10-08)

Improved image handling, now support also original images (without @@images/scales).

[MrTango]

1.0 (2021-10-06)

• Improve German translations [MrTango]

• Improve error handling and add more tests [MrTango]

1.0b1 (2021-07-15)

• Resolve images internally in a custom WeasyPrint url_fetcher, this removes the need to resolves url’s for WeasyPrint, which was problematic with permissions or https cert issues [MrTango]

1.0a4 (2021-07-14)

• Don’t use optimize_images=True in weasyprint for now, it only works in Py3 versions [MrTango]

1.0a3 (2021-07-14)

• Add print_image_scale to control panel and use custom image scale for PDF export [MrTango]

1.0a2 (2021-07-14)

• Fix missing lead image viewlet in PDF export [MrTango]

• Merge content css classes with body tag classes instead of overriding them [MrTango]

1.0a1 (2021-07-13)

• Initial release. [MrTango]