Save generated PDF in files folder

paste: file_put_contents("sites/default/files/print/" . $filename, $pdf);
on line 170 of print_pdf.pages.inc
and make folder called print inside your files folder.

Greetings Daniel

I seem to get a blank file (0 bytes) in the files/print folder when using dompdf, i have added the above code to line 170, but I dont get any output generated to the file. Please could you assist.

Just a note for the next person....

You can achieve the same result using the TCPDF library by adding the following lines to the end of the function _print_pdf_tcpdf in print_pdf.pages.inc (line 305 or so):

$output_dest = 'F';
$pdf->Output('sites/default/files/print/'.$filename, $output_dest);

So... is there any function that would allow me to simulate clicking on the printpdf link for a given node? I've been wading through these controller functions for some time without success.

I added this line
file_put_contents("sites/default/files/print/" . $filename, $pdf);
on the line 170.
I get the same problem as 3degreesdesign... 0k bite file.
Is there a fixed
I'am using DOMPDF and I can't change

Found a trick to save to the server :

adding those lines juste after $dompdf->render(); (line 205)

$pdfoutput = $dompdf->output();
$filepath = "sites/default/files/print/" . $filename .".pdf";
$fp = fopen($filepath, "w");
fwrite($fp, $pdfoutput);
fclose($fp);

Has anybody managed to save pdf files to server sites/default/files/print folder with wkhtmltopdf ?

Following #1 + #9, i can do it with dompdf, but i would like to do the same with wkhtmltopdf.

Thank you

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Hi, everyone, I just want to propose you solution without hacking print-email-pdf. We can simply create appropriate directories and get pdf file content by file_get_contents() and then using file_put_contents() to put file in appropriate dir.

$date = date('d-m-Y');
    $file_path  = variable_get('file_public_path', conf_path() . '/files/webform');
    $path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . base_path() . $file_path . '/' . $date;
    //here we will create directory to store order files
    if(file_prepare_directory($path,  FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY)){
      global $base_root;
      $test =  $base_root . '/printpdf/' . $node->nid;
      $pdf = file_get_contents($test);
      $path .= '/' . $node->nid;
      if(!empty($pdf) && file_prepare_directory($path,  FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY)){
        $path .= '/order.pdf';
        file_put_contents($path, $pdf);
      }
    }

Hello Bogdan where and how I have to install the Snipsel. Greeting Peter

Most of this functionality is already in the module.. There's a PDF cache mechanism that saves a copy of the PDFs in the filesystem.

No further info in more than two weeks. Closing the issue.

Hi. Am I missing something? Is there a config setting to enable the cache mechanism that saves a copy of the PDFs to the filesystem? If not I'm going to give comment #13 a try.

EDIT:
Following the advice in comment #13 worked for me

Here's a code snippet that works. Generates PDF file contents from a Drupal path and saves it to the temporary directory.

 // Get PDF contents
  $path = 'some/path/in/mywebsite';
  module_load_include('inc', 'print_pdf', 'print_pdf.pages');
  $pdf = print_pdf_generate_path($path, array(), NULL, '');
  if (!empty($pdf) ) {
    // Save temporary file
    $temp_file = file_directory_temp() . '/' . 'myFileName.pdf';
    $file_saved = file_put_contents($temp_file, $pdf);
    if ($file_saved) {
       // Do some more stuff...
    }
  }

Hope it helps someone...

Hi,

I tried code from comment #18. It creates pdf and save it on server. But it create other html as well. Such as it prints other tabs like Edit, Delete, Likes. Also it prints console errors at the last page of pdf.

I also tried comment #13. But file_get_contents with printpdf url return nothing.

Any idea why this is not working?

Thanks,
gans

Hi All,

I'm trying #1 but the PDFs are not saving. Did I add the code wrongly?

// If cache is off or file is not cached, generate one from scratch
    if (empty($pdf)) {
      $pdf = print_pdf_generate_html($html, $meta, NULL, $paper_size, $page_orientation);
    }

    if (!empty($pdf)) {
      // A PDF was created, save it to cache if configured\
      if ($cachemiss) {
        if (file_unmanaged_save_data($pdf, $cachefile, FILE_EXISTS_REPLACE) == FALSE) {
          file_put_contents("sites/default/files/ServiceReport/" . $filename, $pdf);
          watchdog('print_pdf', 'Failed to write to "%f".', array('%f' => $filename), WATCHDOG_ERROR);
        }
      }
      return $pdf_filename ? print_pdf_dispose_content($pdf, $pdf_filename) : $pdf;
    

I worked out out by introducing a hook.

I am using dompdf for generating pdf in Drupal 7. its working very fine on localhost. But its not working on online server. There it is not generating page also. It just reload the page again. Anybody please help me.

should be added in line 167

if (!empty($pdf)) {
+ file_put_contents("sites/default/files/test.pdf", $pdf);

Comment #13 by Bogdan is really the best solution.
Just make sure that the permissions for going to that link are set correctly - this is what I was struggling with at first :)