Print module in 1.2 (PDF generation) and news module

[lampsie]

Hi,

I've added this line to my template:

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{cms_module module='printing' pdf="true" text="Print PDF"}

This works well for all pages except on News pages. I have a page set up called News Archives which contains this:

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{news category="General" detailpage="News Archive"}

However, when I print to PDF, I only every get the summery page. I understand that this is because its linking to the page ID of NEws Archives, regardless of me clicking into an article, however I don't know how to stop this!

How can I set this up so that if I have clicked into an article, and then hit Print PDF, it will only print the article?

Thanks,
Lamps

[faglork]

Hi,

maybe a dumb question but: Why use the print module at all? Why not simply a special CSS for printing??

Cheers,
Alex

[lampsie]

Its a fair question 
Much of our site is giving end users tutorials added via the News Module, and we want the ability for users to download a PDF version of the pages so that they can put it onto USB keys etc.

Thanks,
lamps

[lampsie]

*bump* anyone any ideas?
Thanks,
lamps

[jack4ya]

Bump.

Have similar issue.

[cyberman]

Not sure if it will work but read:

1. Modify your news detail template like

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{capture assign=pdfnews}
  ... your current News detail template ...
{/capture}
{$pdfnews}

2. Insert {$pdfnews} in Printing modules PDF template

3. That's all

Maybe there could be a problem for you cause only one pdf template is available.

[l1nda]

Hi
I just tried the last solution to this problem but not sure if i'm doing it right.
does anyone else have other suggestions on how to print a news detail page?
Thanks!

[cyberman]

OK, my fault - Printing module generate the page for pdf output completely new so the suggested way cannot work ...

[l1nda]

thanks cyberman.

Are there any other suggestions?

[lampsie]

Hi there,

I'm on to version 1.4.1, and this issue still seems to exist
Has anyone any idea's since?

Thanks!

Lampsie

[cyberman]

Maybe something like this can help

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 277.0.html

[Silmarillion]

Generally the printing module does not work well with module output. But this is a core problem which are being worked on for version 2.0 of the cms.

Sil.

[lampsie]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the update on this, and looking forward to version 2.0

lampsie