GenPDFAddOn Development

This is the topic to discuss development of GenPDFAddOn

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Active Items

Id	Summary	Priority	Current State	Creation Date	Last Edit
Item9984	does not work under FastCGI	Normal	New	09 Nov 2010 - 21:35	09 Nov 2010 - 21:35
Item9251	GenPDFAddOn header shifting is too simplistic	Normal	New	02 Jul 2010 - 19:58	23 Feb 2011 - 00:25
Item8606	VIEW_TEMPLATE not used when running genpdf recursively	Normal	New	23 Feb 2010 - 19:18	19 Mar 2011 - 09:57
Item10737	File::Temp with mod_perl can't create unique temporary files	Normal	New	11 May 2011 - 19:09	24 May 2011 - 09:12
Item11013	GenPDFAddOn does not honor {Site}{CharSet}	Enhancement	Confirmed	31 Jul 2011 - 23:42	31 Jul 2011 - 23:42
Item11280	Request for configuration to have both Printable Version and Generate PDF links	Low	Confirmed	22 Nov 2011 - 21:51	22 Nov 2011 - 21:59

Discussion

Feedback copied from Tasks.Item1174

Here are few things from my wish list:

• GENPDF{"Web.Topic.Section"} Create a link for the named section of a topic. Link will appear as http://...
• On the old 'dev' topic someone requested that links show in blue, otherwise they're impossible to see against the rest of the black text. I hard-coded that on my site (push @htmldocArgs, "--linkcolor", "#0000FF"; # Otherwise they are black). Some may not want that, so the ideal solution would be to make it configurable.
• Before going crazy with a bunch of macro tags, maybe it would be better to include something like my form to configure the options without having to mess with the URL or a bunch of macro tags? Perhaps it would be better implemented as a pop-up (analagous to the print options dialog in Windows) so as not to force a navigation away from the source document.
• Provide an option to create stand-Alone Documents (i.e., not link back to Wiki). Could do this with custom skin? Or by modifying "sub _fixHtml()" in GenPDF.pm:
  • Convert all internal links to be relative links (e.g., <a href="#name">). These are used in the ToC, but can be in the body too.
  • Remove remaining links to Wiki host, while leaving external links. E.g., this removes table header sort links (which are non-functioning in a PDF anyway, and hard to see against a dark column header).

-- SeanMorgan - 20 Mar 2009