Any Simple Way of Outputting to PDF?

[tghounsell]

Has anyone come up with a reasonably simple way of outputting a details view to PDF? I've tried to follow everything in the wiki and I'm still baffled. I have no idea what that skimpy bit of wiki documentation is trying to tell me about templates. Tried outputting to a simple php page using FPDF, and it works fine when I use it directly on my local machine, but as a piece of code within a joomla article with sourcerer, the output comes out blank. Tried putting the content into an article with sourcerer and outputting to a pdf with PHOCA pdf, but only the hard article content gets output.

Anyone know a relatively simple way (eg no CSS editing) of outputting to pdf or have a working example of a view template that might help me understand what I'm supposed to be doing?

 

[troester]

Simple - no.

As the WIKI says:
https://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/pdf-output/

• You need the Fabrik library package
• You need to enable PDF in your form settings

You can then do a PDF output just with your details template - but this probably will look ugly.

So create a custom details template https://www.fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/form-and-details-templates/
and add custom CSS which is supported by the PDF lib you've choosen (default is domPDF, in Fabrik Options you can switch to mPDF).

PDF CSS examples are in https://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/pdf-output/

Feel free to improve the WIKI.

 

[tghounsell]

Thanks. Instead of trying to decipher the wiki, I created a php page using FPDF and used the list link plug-in to make a the pdf available from my list. I have no idea whether it's a better approach, but I could at least grasp the work involved. With the approach you (and the wiki) outlined, I really feel like I have no idea what it means or where to start. I looked at the templates but I have no idea how they correlate to what I'm seeing on the screen. Big ball of mystery to me.