See also: Typography
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12302819/how-to-create-a-printable-twitter-bootstrap-page
Print options
- When printing, there should be a bunch of available options (WikiPublisher.org is a great example)
- Most common options are shown by default, and the others in an advanced tab
- Since users tend to each have preferred default settings, system should remember last recent print. Ex. with cookies
- Default options are Tiki prefs. overridable by perspective
List of options
Tiki options
- With / without logo / header
- With / without footer
- Option to show / hide: The original document is available at ... (which by the way doesn't site language)
- Cover page
- Table of Content -> Ideas to improve at maketoc
- JavaScript
- Via wkhtmltopdf
- None
- Embellish text via typography lib.
- Links
- Hide
- Show underline and external link icon
- Put link as footnote
- Put link just after label
- PluginMouseOver
- Hide
- Show as sidenote
- Show as footer
- PluginTabs
- Print current
- Print all
- + / - for headers and bullet list, or PluginFade
- Print current
- Open all
- PluginVersions
- Print current
- Print all
Feature option
- Wiki page may have different options than printing a tracker item
Print engine alternatives
- mPDF is a very powerful PHP library
- wkhtmltopdf is the reference PDF generator and has many options: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/usage/wkhtmltopdf.txt
- phpwkhtmltopdf and Snappy should make them all available to Tiki
- WeasyPrint is a Python library
- PhantomJS would be an interesting alternative: http://phantomjs.org/api/webpage/property/paper-size.html
- SlimerJS now has PDF options: https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/pull/195
Print engine options
See mPDF manual for a large number of examples
- PDF outlines
- Table of content -> Ideas to improve at: maketoc
- Header / Footer (Page numbers, title, date / time of print)
- Watermark
- Page sizes (A4, letter, etc) and options
- Print as user X or group Y, which can use to personalize or redact text. Can we use PluginGroup or should be go for creating a PluginRedact?
- etc.
Other ideas
- It would be nice to use a wiki page to make the template to layout the header / footer / etc.
- Maybe there should be a way to override some mPDF params via a wiki plugin? ex: force a page break. This page in landscape mode. force another page break. This page in portrait mode. Ex.: {print break=page} {print layout=portrait}
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