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Bernard Asante
Bernard Asante
2,808 Points
Posted by Bernard Asante
Bernard Asante
2,808 Points

Can anybody suggest a good script that allows a user to compose pdf pages from html and then send as email or download?

The feature or script in question can be found on this website, http://perkinswill.com/

is there a tutorial or plug in any of the team treehouse team can suggest or help with?

Here is how it works User browses web site and adds content (eg project pages) User is able to add several pages Once they are happy, they can then down load the whole thing as a PDF

It seems the plugin is called my book composer if anyone has heard of it?....

3 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

not sure all that's involved with this setup, but I've had great success implementing TCPDF (http://www.tcpdf.org/) . With TCPDF I can use pretty basic html and css to create any pdf I need dynamically. I've used it to generate certifcates when people have completed courses with their names and courses on it, as well as just to create a PDF of selected content.

Bernard Asante
Bernard Asante
2,808 Points
Bernard Asante
Bernard Asante
2,808 Points

Thank for you reply Andrew,

This is all still a bit new to me - would you be able to provide any assistance with setting this up on a word press platform? Basically i'm creating custom post so would like the user to be able to make and download / print post that are of interest to them?

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

sorry man. that's much bigger project than I could take on right now. I'm not aware nor have found any plugins that do anything like this out of the box. If you are interested in doing this yourself, I could help you think it out but I'd figure it's going to be a hefty project.

Ricardo Diaz
Ricardo Diaz
30,415 Points
Ricardo Diaz
Ricardo Diaz
30,415 Points

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but there is a plugin called PDF24 article to PDF. https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf24-post-to-pdf/screenshots/

kjvswift93
kjvswift93
13,515 Points
kjvswift93
kjvswift93
13,515 Points

I actually really like this set of iOS apps called ITTT (If this then that), which allow you to create your own custom workflows easily allowing to make one that will do just that.