I'm having difficulties generating a bilingual (English/French) pdf from a resource. Using the mpdf library I'm getting unicode errors.
Does anyone have a working example of the new PDFresource snippet (although this will probably toss out the same error)?
Thanks
Jim
currently Revo 2.4.2
on testing server with XAMPP
Apache/2.4.16
PHP/5.5.28
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Your issue might be solved by utf8_decode()
5 years ago:
https://forums.modx.com/thread/24611/pdf-export?page=3#dis-post-125963
One untested idea would be a custom output modifier
snippet:
utf8decode
$output = utf8_decode($input);
return $output;
then in your chunk:
tplPDF
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<h1>[[+pagetitle:utf8decode]]</h1>
[[+content:utf8decode]]
</body>
</html>
Thanks mrhaw, The unicode error turned out to be a non-issue caused by the lack of an '. Here is a better explanation of my problem:
I am trying to find a method to generate a PDF file from a MODx 2.4.2 resource. In our case the users complete a certain amount of annual training, or activity participation. We need to generate a PDF file which sumarises their progress over a three year period. The data comes from the database, the file is downloaded and not stored on the server. I can generate the report but cannot seem to accomplish the pdf conversion. Does anyone have a working model to perform such a task.
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Are you generating the report in a script outside of MODX? I do believe mPDF can accomplish what you want, it's just some work
getting there!
http://jako.github.io/PDFresource/
http://mpdf1.com/manual/index.php?tid=106
Yes mpdf comes close. Everything is generated inside MODx but I can't get anything in my chunk to render as pdf. Perhaps another day will get me there.
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PDFresource does not generate PDF files on the fly. Only if the PDF does not exist, it will be generated if a system setting is enabled
[ed. note: Jako last edited this post 10 years, 11 months ago.]
Thanks Jako this is looking much better. But for some reason it is dropping some of the placeholders The PDF should look something like: CSAAC_Your_CEP.png instead it renders like Your_CEP_pdf.png. At this point I have not applied any CSS to the pdf. Any ideas?
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