Products.SmartPrintNG Conversion of Plone content to PDF, RTS, ODT, DOCX and WML ================================================================================== SmartPrintNG - high-quality export of Plone content to PDF, RTF, ODT, WML and DOCX ================================================================================== SmartPrintNG provides high-quality export to the most common office formats like PDF, RTF, ODT, DOCX and WML based on XSL-FO. Features: --------- SmartPrintNG 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 SmartPrintNG archive inside the *Products* folder of your instance home - add 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 SmartPrintNG: ------------------- - on Plone 3.0 you will see **Export** as new document action. Clicking on it will open the SmartPrintNG control panel at the bottom of your current page. License ------- SmartPrintNG is published under LGNU Public License V 3.0 (LGPL 3.0). Copyright --------- SmartPrintNG is (C) 2007, 2008, ZOPYX Ltd. & Co KG, Charlottenstr. 37/1, D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany Author ------ SmartPrintNG was written by Andreas Jung for ZOPYX Ltd. & Co. KG, Tuebingen, Germany. Contact ------- | ZOPYX Ltd & Co. KG | c/o Andreas Jung | Charottenstr. 37/1 | D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany | E-mail: info at zopyx dot com | Web: http://www.zopyx.com or http://www.zopyx.de CHANGES ======= 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 Andreas Jung 58dab64923a86a01607ead955ec4567e441a6223 1.2.0