Description

This module will allow you to, when combined with fancy WYSIWYG functionality, produce a PDF that looks nice and also looks more or less like what you typed in your editor. You'll be able use this for press releases or official communication with letterhead or attractive looking bleeds after you configure the assets you want to use as headers and footers.

This originated as a really quick, dirty, no-budget "see if it's possible" feature for a client, but really seems like it would be a decent full module.

Why this doesn't duplicate Print:

Closest existing module I could find was Print. Print will totally transform your content into a PDF, too. Sort of. It will, at least, put your text content into a PDF and format it according to the HTML it contains. Correspondence's focus is creating an attractive PDF communiqué with pictures and tables as well as letterhead or bleeds.

Correspondence also "ships" with a feature that, after you download the dependencies, will install and configure your WYSIWYG editor and text formats with a single click, saving you a bunch of configuration hassle.

Future Work

Going the obvious route and including e-mail functionality will be one of the next steps, right after improving the document archive so that it attaches itself more directly to a node's (or other entity's) revisions.

There are also other things I plan on improving, like being able to adjust your font sizes and getting reliable correlation between editor and the PDF when you do. Due to the way WYSIWYG provides CSS to the editor, this is an annoying feature to implement (but I have an idea).

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Reviews

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Comments

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PA robot commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

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wwedding commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review

Issues reported by the scraper aren't my code; Features do a couple things it doesn't like and the camel caps are a library function.

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serm commented

Hi,
My manual review:
1. in correspondence.module line 776 variable $l is undefined
2. in correspondence_wysiwyg.css lines 21, 22: unit is measure px is redundant
3. I do not see any reason to use file correspondence_content_type.features.inc

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wwedding commented

Made some new issues to address what you've pointed out, serm, thanks!

#2060527: Clean up the TCPDF build function, remove unnecessary bits that originated in example code
#2060511: Remove redundant units in CSS

As far as #3 goes: that is required because correspondence_content_type is a Feature generated by Features and those API calls are necessary to tie into that module.

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saemie commented
Status: Needs review » Needs work

Hi there,

[manual review]
1) user t() in correspondence.module:48 (minus

tags), correspondence.module:306
2) Use check_plain for the filename correspondence.module:361

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Status: Needs work » Closed (won't fix)

Closing due to lack of activity. Feel free to reopen if you are still working on this application (see also the project application workflow).

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PA robot commented
Issue summary: View changes

I missed a space in my original git clone command.