Drupal supported php pdf generation tool

This ensures that we have no margins added by wkhtmltopdf and can rely on our CSS output. We are also rendering at dpi for print. A quick note on images. There are options for setting image dpi rendering here, but of course if someone uploads a 72dpi image and it is upscaled to dpi, it will look poor. Getting this right is a combination of configuration and user training. The print module works by recreating HTML markup as other output formats. I find it easier to create the markup and CSS that will result in this output first.

Below is my content type — I have added a couple of the extra fields that my content type needs, but not all of them:. The print module comes with its own style sheet print.

If you checked the option Keep the current theme CSS as mentioned above then the print module will use your main theme styles and then check the print. This makes the most sense to me and feels like the tidiest option. The rest of this example will assume it is enabled. Website URL.

Home page. Leave this field blank. More articles Decent PDF generation in Drupal. Net session state scaling and performance issues. Couchbase 4. Drupal 8 performance: the Supercache module. Uploading big files to Drupal 8: PLUpload integration. Drupal 8 Wincache Integration. Running Drupal 8 on PHP 7. Home page. Leave this field blank. More articles Exposing reverse entity reference fields in Drupal. The module is created and maintained by benjy.

It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. After the module is configured properly and all permissions are set, we can start exporting entities and views to a PDF file.

Entity Print adds a disabled field to the view modes of each content type. The field has a default label value of "View PDF". To make this field visible on any content type, enable it on the Manage Display page. The URL button is:. To remove it, go to the Manage Display page for the specific content type. Now you can disable the Entity Print field on that view mode. By default, the PDF view mode is installed for Nodes only.

You can name it whatever you like but remember that a machine name should be "pdf", as it will be automatically prefixed with the entity name. You can do it for any entity type or even view. Add css library to the Node entities but only article bundles:.