Elliot, You might try a combination of wkhtmltopdf and a tweaked 'media=print' stylesheet. I use that combo with some scripting to generate hundreds of PDFs per week.
Good luck, Jeff --- Jeff Casimir Jumpstart Lab by Casimir Creative, LLC [email protected] Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Eliot Mack <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We've been using Radiant for our web site for a couple of years with > great success. It's easily the cleanest CMS solution of several that I > tried. > > We have an existing documentation section for our product that is > built > with Radiant; http://www.lightcrafttech.com/previzion/users-manual/. > We're happy with the dual column formatting. It's all done in Markdown > for the text, with CSS for layouts. > > We'd like to be able to do an automatic PDF conversion of the whole > documentation tree that preserves some of the existing page layout. > Exactly how much is flexible, but the dual column formatting would be > nice to keep, as we worked hard to get it to display correctly on the > web. We don't need the header/footer or side panel graphics, just the > main text and image documentation with the dual column formatting > preserved, with correct page breaks, etc. > > I checked into the Radiant extension for Maruku, but the author > indicated that it probably would not do what we are looking for. In > searching through the Radiant list archives, I found some discussion > about automatically generating a PDF 'book' from Radiant documentation > in the 'Summer Reboot Documentation' thread in July 2008, which is > exactly what I'm looking for, but I don't think it's been implemented. > > I'm happy to pay someone a few hundred $ to write this, and release it > open source. It seems like an extension that would be useful for many > people, and it's worth doing it well enough to be re-used. Feel free > to > contact me off-list if you are interested; eliot (at) lightcrafttech.com > . > > Thanks, > > Eliot > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > Radiant: http://radiantcms.org > Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant Radiant: http://radiantcms.org Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org
