Hi Thibaut,

You work could probably be integrated as part of the Multipage export feature.
See http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/MultiExport

Check for example the PDF export options on
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/MultiExport2Proposal

Thanks
-Vincent

On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:47 PM, Thibaut Camberlin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was writing a piece of code so that PDF export prints associated meta data
> of a page. Since I was in PDF macros code, I worked on a PDF export options
> page.
> 
> By working on the PDF export options, I am using check boxes that allows
> user to choose to export or not cover page, toc page, metadata page
> attachments and comments. Issue I encountered is that when a check box is
> not checked it is not set and I found no way to use check boxes with actual
> code from pdfhtmlheader.vm page:
> 
> #if("$!request.pdfcover" != '0')
>  #set($displayPdfCover = 1)
> #else
>  #set($displayPdfCover = 0)
> #end
> and the same for pdftoc
> 
> (I could have put <input value="0"/> instead but it makes more sense to have
> <input value="1"/>)
> 
> Therefore I am proposing that we:
> * update pdfhtmlheader.vm page so that cover and toc page are not exported
> by default
> * update existing pdf export button so that we keep the same behaviour
> (pdfcover and pdftoc printed in PDF), meaning instead of
> *page?format=pdf*it would be
> *page?format=pdf&pdftoc=1&pdfcover=1*
> 
> Some UI will be needed afterward so that this page is exposed. (I am not
> planning to work on this.)
> 
> The export options would be made in a template, but I put the code in this
> page of the incubator so that it makes things clearer if needed:
> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/PDFExport/ExportOptions
> 
> Thanks for your feedback on pdfhtmlheader.vm modification and on the feature
> itself.
> --
> Thibaut
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