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#61 2006-02-21 01:06:43
- wanni
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
Hi guys, this evening I had some time to spend on this plug-in and I think the solution isn’t that far away. So this is what I found out.
1. The textile-thing: It was just what I guessed. If a non-valid XHTML-file is produced, xhtml2pdf stops its output. So every text has to be between < p> and < /p> tags. My suggestion: check if excerpt and body start with < p> and end with < /p>, if not, add these tags. This is the pragmatic way to do so, does anyone have a better solution?
2. The unicode-issue: I spent some time reading on fpdf.org and I unfortunately I had to read, that fpdf does not support UTF-8-encoding. But there is a solution. Someone deveoped an exension for fpdf called updf and guess what the “u” stands for: you’re right, for unicode. The first tests were successful.
Still to do:
1. Check the image-issue
2. Check the trouble with the PHP-version, but I still can’t reproduce this. It works both on my local installation with PHP 5 and on my website with PHP 4. But perhaps this problem disappears when the textile-problem is fixed.
So stay tuned, there will be a (hopefully everywhere working) version.
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#62 2006-02-23 05:43:46
- Dawk
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
sounds great, have been wanting to try this out.
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#63 2006-02-23 10:17:43
- wanni
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
I just released an updated version, changelog is in the first post of this thread. I would be very happy, if my hard-working beta-testers could do some tests once again. Please post any suggestions and bug reports in this thread. Oh, and one remark: UTF8 sucks ;)
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#64 2006-02-24 21:04:52
- els
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
I deleted all old pdf files, installed v 0.3 and ftp’ed the new xhtml2pdf folder to textpattern/lib/. Unfortunately when I want to open a page with an article with an image in it, I still get this error:
FPDF error: Missing or incorrect image file: /home/virtual/site87/fst/var/www/html/casadonamaria/textpattern/lib/xhtml2pdfb835684a95caf4231ef6f165d7e5c179_tmp.jpg
(shouldn’t there be a slash after /lib/xhtml2pdf?)
Also there is still a “1” between the article title and the body in some pdf files, and not in others.
I added debug=“y” but what should it do exactly? I don’t see anything different.
EDIT: I get the FPDF error even when I set the articles with images to use another article form, that does not contain the wan_pdf tag…
Last edited by doggiez (2006-02-24 21:13:36)
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#65 2006-02-24 21:14:21
- wanni
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
Very strange. The only thing that debug=“y” does, is that the temporary xhtml-files are not deleted. Perhaps you could do two things. Post the image url exactly as it is in the source code. And send the temp xhtml-files to martin@wannert.net and I will have a look at it. Thanks for you feedback.
EDIT: I think there should be a slash, but I don’t know why this strange image-url is created at all.
EDIT2: That is very strange, something seems to be included what should not be included
Last edited by wanni (2006-02-24 21:17:06)
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#66 2006-02-24 21:23:05
- els
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
The url of the images in the source is like this:
<img src="http://casadonamaria.portugalore.com/images/2.jpg" height="338" width="500" alt="" />
Where should those temp files be? I don’t see any.
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#67 2006-02-24 21:40:48
- wanni
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
The temp files are located usually in path_to_textpattern/textpattern/tmp. You can see the location in the admin panel under preferences/advanced preferences
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#68 2006-02-24 23:06:54
- els
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
I noticed that the temp html files are created, with images. So I checked my pages with those articles for validation errors, and indeed found two :( But fixing them unfortunately did not make a difference…
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#69 2006-02-26 09:44:15
- wanni
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
Of course you have to produce valid xhtml. But please send me the temp file where images are not working and I will have a look at it and perhaps I can fix the bug.
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#70 2006-02-26 11:31:30
- els
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
Thanks, I mailed you last friday, but to make sure I sent you a temp file of an article with an image just now again. The link to the image seems to be correct.
Thank you again for looking into this.
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#71 2006-02-26 13:50:43
- els
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
I’m so sorry for causing all this confusion, everything is working fine now. It turned out that it was a javascript that I had in my article (to show an image only when a link was clicked) that caused the problem. Once I removed that everything was fine!
Thanks again Martin for all your help! And have a nice Sunday (what’s left of it…) ;)
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] wan_pdf
Nice plugin, thanks.
The only problem I have, is that the “ü,ö,ä” in the article title are not displayed correctly (using php 4.4.1)
Last edited by tranquillo (2006-02-26 16:30:05)
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