By henrikbo on

I have to create a marketing portal on our intranet. At the portal, we want to generate print-ready highres PDF files with dynamic input of text and images. PDF files may be based on InDesign templates, which is not a requirement.

Does anyone know of a Drupal module that can handle the job

Best,
Henrik Bo Olesen
hbo@aarstiderne.dk

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LiquidWeb’s picture

LiquidWeb commented

http://drupal.org/project/print this module creates PDF from printable version of any node.

vivianspencer’s picture

vivianspencer commented

You can try the following modules, they all allow you to transform existing nodes to pdf format

http://drupal.org/project/print
http://drupal.org/project/pdfview
http://drupal.org/project/dompdf

All you'd then have to do is create a content type particularly for the pdf files and then set that content type to be transformed into pdf format using one of the above modules.

- Vivian

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jlambert commented

We built a back office printing system with Drupal as a frontend this past year that was much more complex than simple conversion to pdf from nodes.

We ended up using SOAP to connect to some really good Web-Service based Java Services, which in turn could handle the complex layout, template management, and pre-press work required to automate high end printing (this was everything from plastic cards to envelopes in one system, with a ton of variation).

This approach worked really well, and I would recommend it. Best-of-breed, separated-by-concerns with Drupal handling all the client interaction and admin work. Contact me if you need more help.

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