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PDF Preprocessor Plugin

Summary

The Joomla! built-in PDF function renders merely raw article content leaving possible plugin markup in it and allows no influence on the rendering process whatsoever. This plugin adds the missing features and makes PDF function actually usable.

Feature Overview

1. Possibility to call other plugins
2. Article clean-up before PDF processing
3. Possibility to control PDF appearance by the means of CSS
4. Customization of PDF processor parameters
5. Support for template overrides

Report

2011-02-10
Reviews: 15
I had a small problem after install, but they responded to my support request in less than an hour. Great service and a great product.
2011-01-09
Reviews: 3
yours was the best of the only two solutions i've found for the problem (the other ones uses the very same missing feature).
i had text content wrapped in an accordion plugin, and i did want it on the pdf, so i just reused the default regex and put the \{\w+[^\}]*\} and \{/\w+[^\}]*\} tags on separate lines.
2010-03-27
Reviews: 1
Finally, I'm able to print good clean PDFs that include the photos in an article, and their captions, but exclude the embedded advertising! It took only a few minutes to set up.

I would have given this extension five stars if it supported the PullQuotes extension.
Owner's reply

Thank You for Your friendly review.

Concerning Your remark on supporting PullQuotes I have to say that there is a misunderstanding here: no special support for third party plugins is needed to include their output in the resulting PDF. There is a setting called "Safe Plugins" in the parameter editor, You can add plugins You want to be included there (in Your case append ",pullquotes" to the list). However, the added plugin has to be "safe", i.e. IT HAS TO SUPPORT output formats other than HTML. Unfortunately most of plugins turn out to ignore possibility they are called in a PDF document (or anything else but HTML).

If You would like to try this out, I would be glad to here about Your experience and in case there is a problem we could contact the vendor of PullQuotes, so they can add PDF processing compatibility.