Save you site in pdf format?

rk · Post by rk » Wed 9. Jun 2004, 13:31

Have you take a look on http://www.mamboserver.com/.

OpenSourceCMS with the possibility to generate PDF-Documents.

I don't know how they do it, but they have some interesting features, ...

frold · Post by **frold** » Wed 9. Jun 2004, 14:12

duergner wrote:OK I've read something about that yesterday. The creation of the XML-FO document is as easy as creating the FPDF things in my opinion. You just have to create a XSL stylesheet, that transforms the XML document that contains the data into a XML-FO document that contains formatting information too.

Do you need that for every content type? or?
I do not have the skills for that....

One problem that occurs at the moment seems to be, that I couldn't find a PHP implementation of a XML-FO 'program' that creates the PDF file out of it.

Maybe some of the other forum users knows one?

duergner · Post by **duergner** » Wed 9. Jun 2004, 14:21

frold wrote:Do you need that for every content type? or?
I do not have the skills for that....

Yes that needs to be done for every content type. But I think there are the great features of that way, because a user could more or less easily change that XSL stylesheet and out of that create a new PDF layout.

frold wrote:
One problem that occurs at the moment seems to be, that I couldn't find a PHP implementation of a XML-FO 'program' that creates the PDF file out of it.
Maybe some of the other forum users knows one?

That would be great. I'll alos take a look on the other CMS just mentioned above during the next days. Perhaps they have a possibility that could easily be ported to phpWCMS.

frold · Post by **frold** » Wed 9. Jun 2004, 14:23

duergner wrote:Perhaps they have a possibility that could easily be ported to phpWCMS.

Would be nice.. hope you find the right and easiest solution

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Sun 13. Jun 2004, 23:29

There are PDF creation classes - you can search for it...
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_a ... ation/PDF/

It's not difficult to realize PDF "print" function.

But I have other problems at the moment - I can't see any situation in which it makes sense to print into PDF. There are really good free PDF creation tools available.

Oliver

frold · Post by **frold** » Sun 13. Jun 2004, 23:38

Oliver Georgi wrote: It's not difficult to realize PDF "print" function.

Oliver

Also if you like to convert a whole phpwcms site and its content to 1 pdf file with just one click?

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Sun 13. Jun 2004, 23:51

Yes. All you need - is a PHP HTML to PDF class.

Oliver

duergner · Post by **duergner** » Mon 14. Jun 2004, 08:52

You're basically right Oliver, but I think that the power if most HTML to PDF classes in PHP is more or less restricted somehow either in speed or in functionallity.

Basically I would prefer the XML-FO version, 'cause that seems to be the most powerful one in my opinion wouldn't there be the lack of a FO processor in PHP.

Perhaps I'll try to implement a simple PDF output in the first step and try to implement a FO processor in PHP for later versions.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Mon 14. Jun 2004, 09:04

I think it's wasted time at the moment. There may be exist working CGI/Perl solutions like GhostScript's HTML2PDF. These are fast and powerful solutions.

Oliver

frold · Post by **frold** » Mon 14. Jun 2004, 10:30

If it is so easy I hope someone can make it

I will give it a try myself after the 1. july.. But it is not sure that I will succeed

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Mon 14. Jun 2004, 10:59

http://www.rustyparts.com/pdf.php

Oliver

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu 19. Aug 2004, 06:29

Hey,

Is there any advance in this topic?

I would like to, at least, export the whole site to its HTML format so I can ship it on CD...

Any idea?

DeXXus · Post by **DeXXus** » Thu 19. Aug 2004, 07:17

Will wrote:Hey,

Is there any advance in this topic?

I would like to, at least, export the whole site to its HTML format so I can ship it on CD...

Any idea?

http://www.httrack.com/

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu 19. Aug 2004, 07:18

Thanks... I just found http://www.httpweazel.com

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu 19. Aug 2004, 07:57

HTTrack seems to be better than HTTP Weazel..

Thanks!