Since Views PDF uses its own display type with its own formats other formats that are usually available in block or page views cannot be used. This includes grid views or formats provided by other modules like the Views Matrix Module.

The following is a list of modules acting as formatters for file field.

With the Views PDF module you can output a view as a PDF document. Each field of the view can be placed on the PDF page directly in the administration interface. Therefore a new display called "PDF Page" is added.

There are already some PDF solutions such as Print. But these solutions use the HTML output and converts this to PDF. The disadvantages of such an integration are:

• No control over page flow (e.g. page break).
• Little or no control over page header and footer.
• You need HTML skills to change the layout.
• The rendering is slow and need a lot of memory, because it need to render the HTML.
• Complex tables make troubles.
• Vector graphics can not be implemented, therefore the printing of the document can be problematic.
• You are limited by HTML's capabilities.

Installation

Installation instructions:

1. Download the module or checkout the module.
2. Upload the module to your Drupal instance.

Install and enable the Printer, email and PDF versions module in the usual way. Learn more about installing Drupal modules. This module contains a number of 'sub-modules'; you should enable the print and print_ui modules, and one or more of the following modules.