Features:

Produce & Publish for Plone can convert the 'content' view of Plone documents into different formats:

• PDF
• ODT (native Openoffice format)
• RTF (Rich Text Format)
• DOCS (native Microsoft Office 2007 format)
• WML (older Microsoft Office 2003(?) XML-based format)

Other features:

• customizable templates per content-type
• customizable stylesheets per content-type
• configurable per-content-type content aggregation
• customizable conversion workflow chain e.g. to prepare the HTML e.g by removing links or generating link lists
• document-structure-driven conversion: e.g. the H1 tags can be used to enforce page-breaks in order to use sections starting with a H1 tag as marker for a new chapter.

Requirements:

• zopyx.convert V 1.0.0 or higher, see http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zopyx.convert
• BeautifulSoup
• Plone 3.0, 3.1 (no support for Plone 2.5)
• Javascript-enabled browser
• PIL (Python Imaging Library)

Installation:

• ensure that zopyx.convert is installed including all its dependencies
• unpack the Products.SmartPrintNG archive inside the Products folder of your instance home
• add Products.SmartPrintNG through the Add/Remove programms functionalty inside the Plone UI
• if you create a new Plone site, ensure to pick up the proper extension profile matching your Plone version

Using Produce & Publish for Plone:

• on Plone 3.0 you will see Export as new document action. Clicking on it will open the Produce & Publish for Plone control panel at the bottom of your current page.

License

Produce & Publish for Plone is published under LGNU Public License V 3.0 (LGPL 3.0).

Copyright

Produce & Publish for Plone is (C) 2007, 2008, ZOPYX Ltd. & Co KG, Charlottenstr. 37/1, D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany

Author

Produce & Publish for Plone was written by Andreas Jung for ZOPYX Ltd. & Co. KG, Tuebingen, Germany.

Contact

1.2.12 (02.07.2009)

• fixed logo issue in demo code

1.2.11 (19.06.2009)

• skins.xml cleanup
• Added better support of l18n for the l10n

1.2.10 (24.05.2009)

• Plone 3.3 compatiblity

1.2.9 (27.04.2009)

• Plone 3.2 compatiblity

1.2.8 (01.04.2009)

• security related fix

1.2.7 (04.02.2009)

• providing a better fix for changes in V 1.2.6

1.2.6 (22.01.2009)

• providing default 'html' if content_extractor=None

1.2.5 (12.11.2008)

• merged Michael Dunstan's branch for fixing the jquery issue with Plone 3.0

1.2.4 (10.11.2008)

• excluded jquery from Plone 3.1 profile

1.2.3 (07.11.2008)

• fixed a visual issue using content aggregators in sp_selection.pt

1.2.2 (13.09.2008)

• improved error handling for images

1.2.1 (12.07.2008)

• added option for removing the review history
• support for the manipulation default states
• fixed installer code for Plone 3.0/3.1

1.2.0 (05.07.2008)

• new print option: font-size, column-count, paper-size
• removed dual-licence
• licensed completely under the LGPL 3

1.1.4 (22.06.2008)

• new print option: orientation=portrait/landscape

1.1.3 (18.06.2008)

• 'filename' parameter was not properly escaped causing some trouble on MacOSX where temporary directory names contained '+++'

1.1.2 (20.04.2008)

• fixed jQuery integration issue related to the $() shortcut

1.1.1 (18.04.2008)

• removeLinks no longer removed complete <a> tags but replaces it with a <span> tag containing the former linktext
• dropping support for Plone 2.5

1.1.0 (15.04.2008)

• replaced prototype.js with JQuery (patch by Alessandro XXXX)
• Plone 3.1 compatiblity
• now comes with dedicated GenericSetup profiles for Plone 3.0 and Plone 3.1

1.0.1 (27.01.2008)

• fixed a manipulation error with internal anchors (having no 'href' attribute)
• escaping whitespaces (browser.deliver())
• license change: now using LGPL 3
• some stylesheet fine-tuning
• support for 'redirect=1' as URL parameter fixed
• provided adapter for extracting HTML from standard documents (basically for supporting document actions without the JS popup).

1.0.0 (30.09.2007)

• official 1.0.0 release

0.2.0 (08.09.2007)

• per-interface IHTMLExtractor support (backend and UI). Look at the demo folder (plone_adapters.py)
• fixed JS racing condition in smartprint.js
• better error handling in case of a backend failure
• german translation
• the new ZCML directive smartprintng:resourceDirectory allows you to register all templates (suffix .pt) and stylesheets (suffix .css) within the given directory for one or more interfaces. See demo/configure.zcml and the whole demo directory for examples.
• templates, stylesheets and FO related stylesheets completely configurable on a per-interface basis
• moved default styles and default FO styles to 'resources' directory
• using the BeautifulSoup module for HTML manipulations

0.1.1 (19.07.2007)

• Plone 2.5 support

0.1.0 (13.07.2007)

• initial release