SID-00782: Using genPDF

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:	GenPDFAddOn	Server OS:	Ubuntu OS 9.10	Last update:	1 year ago

Hello All,

I have a question about using genpdf. I installed it and got it working for a while.

1. Major question: it just produces a blank white page . The error.log messages have this:

[Tue Mar 16 11:29:51 2010] genpdf: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Users/TWikiUserMapping.pm line 471.

2. Minor question: I edited the /var/www/twiki/templates/viewtopicactionbuttons.tmpl file and added this line %TMPL:DEF{"action_printablepdf"}%%TMPL:P{"printablepdf"}%%TMPL:P{"sep"}%%TMPL:END% %TMPL:DEF{"printablepdf"}%<span><a href="%SCRIPTURLPATH%/genpdf%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?pdftitle=%TOPIC%" rel='nofollow' %MAKETEXT{"title='PDF version of this topic' accesskey='P'>&Print PDF"}%</a></span>%TMPL:END% %TMPL:DEF{"activatable_printablepdf"}%%TMPL:P{"printablepdf"}%%TMPL:END%

and get the Print PDF button at the bottom. How do I also get a button at the top along with the "EDIT" and "ATTACH" buttons.

Many thanks.

-- KarthikB - 2010-03-16

Discussion and Answer

I had a problem where generated PDFs were blank in Adobe 8.1 (but not FoxitReader) because of embedded fonts: removing those makes for smaller but less portable PDF files. I had to modify /lib/TWiki/Contrib/GenPDF.pm (down near the end, where all the other arguments are added) to add an extra argument.

push @htmldocArgs, "--no-embedfonts"; # required with Adobe 8.1.

-- SeanCMorgan - 2010-03-18

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-05-02

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