EEA Converter

EEA Converter

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Introduction

This package provides utilities to convert images and PDF files using ImageMagick. Also, toghether with collective.sendaspdf and pdftk users can download HTML pages as PDFs with custom cover support

Installation

Customize output PDF

Cover

Provide custom browser:page called @@pdf.cover:

<browser:page
  for="my.package.interfaces.ICustomContent"
  name="pdf.cover"
  class=".app.pdfview.Cover"
  template="zpt/pdf.cover.pt"
  permission="zope2.View"
  />

Body

Provide custom browser:page called @@pdf.body:

<browser:page
  for="my.package.interfaces.ICustomContent"
  name="pdf.body"
  class=".app.pdfview.Body"
  template="zpt/pdf.body.pt"
  permission="zope2.View"
  />

Options

For PDF cover you’ll have to provide a named adapter like:

<adapter
  name="pdf.cover"
  for=" my.package.interfaces.ICustomContent"
  provides="collective.sendaspdf.interfaces.ISendAsPDFOptionsMaker"
  factory=".adapters.CoverOptionsMaker" />

For PDF body you’ll have to provide an unamed adapter like:

<adapter
  for=" my.package.interfaces.ICustomContent"
  provides="collective.sendaspdf.interfaces.ISendAsPDFOptionsMaker"
  factory=".adapters.OptionsMaker" />

Also add custom print.css for your needs. See more at collective.sendaspdf

Dependencies

Note

These are not hard dependencies. You can use all features of eea.converter or just the ones that you need.

  • pdfinfo to parse pdf metadata (part of the xpdf package):

    yum install xpdf (fedora)
    apt-get install xpdf (debian)
  • pdftk to generate a cover image from a pdf file:

    yum install pdftk (fedora)
    apt-get install pdftk (debian)
  • ImageMagick (6.3.7+):

    yum install ImageMagick
    apt-get install imagemagick
  • collective.sendaspdf

Source code

Latest source code (Zope 2 compatible):

Documentation

See the doc directory in this package.

Funding

EEA - European Environment Agency (EU)