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Hello

How can I make a PDF available for the visitors automatically when they view an Articles/Entry.

The entry should also be downloaded in PDF automatically.

How can i achieve that in EE 2.2 ?

Hi Ibn

If you mean ‘people who are not logged in’ then you could use this within your Entries tag:

{if logged_out}
  <a href="http://{pdf_file_field_name}">Here's a link to a {title} PDF…</a>
{/if}

This would only be visible to guests.

Option 2:
If you mean that a PDF version of the Entry content must be generated on the fly, then you could use a PRINT CSS stylesheet and a link to allow people to print the article, they can then choose to make a PDF using their normal PDF writer or print out a hard copy.

Option 3:
Use a plugin like this: http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/tcpdf/ to do the above, but the file is downloaded as a PDF.

Hope that helps.

@Matt:P

Thanks for the reply

In short, i need the guests to be able to download a PDF version of the article they are viewing.

I tried the tcpdf addon, but decided to not use it for a reason i cant recall.

I’ll try out your Option 1 and see how it goes.

I just need to show a small PDF icon on the top right of the article, where the guest can click to download the same article as PDF.

OK, so my option 1 will render a link to a manually created PDF which is uploaded as part of the Entry creation process…

make sense?

manually created, hmm

Is there a way to transform the article/entry automatically to PDF format and make it available for download ?

The manual way is fine but it does add extra work since the articles would number in the 1000’s

That’s what I thought. I would only do it that way if it was more of a brochure style PDF, which had been put together by a graphic designer…

So, what about option 2? (rendering a print media page using CSS)

The purpose is not for the guests to print the article in pdf format, rather to give them a PDF file for offline viewing of the article, as some articles will be quite long.