Print

See also: Typography

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12302819/how-to-create-a-printable-twitter-bootstrap-page

http://dev.tiki.org/Print

Print options

• When printing, there should be a bunch of available options (WikiPublisher.org is a great example)
• Most common options are shown by default, and the others in an advanced tab
• Since users tend to each have preferred default settings, system should remember last recent print. Ex. with cookies
• Default options are Tiki prefs. overridable by perspective

List of options

Tiki options

• With / without logo / header
• With / without footer
  • Option to show / hide: The original document is available at ... (which by the way doesn't site language)
• Cover page
• Table of Content -> Ideas to improve at maketoc
  • JavaScript
  • Via wkhtmltopdf
  • None
• Embellish text via typography lib.
• Links
  • Hide
  • Show underline and external link icon
  • Put link as footnote
  • Put link just after label
• PluginMouseOver
  • Hide
  • Show as sidenote
  • Show as footer
• PluginTabs
  • Print current
  • Print all
• + / - for headers and bullet list, or PluginFade
  • Print current
  • Open all
• PluginVersions
  • Print current
  • Print all

Feature option

• Wiki page may have different options than printing a tracker item

Print engine alternatives

• mPDF is a very powerful PHP library
• wkhtmltopdf is the reference PDF generator and has many options: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/usage/wkhtmltopdf.txt
  • phpwkhtmltopdf and Snappy should make them all available to Tiki
• WeasyPrint is a Python library
• PhantomJS would be an interesting alternative: http://phantomjs.org/api/webpage/property/paper-size.html
  • https://github.com/jonnnnyw/php-phantomjs
• SlimerJS now has PDF options: https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/pull/195

Print engine options

See mPDF manual for a large number of examples

• PDF outlines
  • Table of content -> Ideas to improve at: maketoc
• Header / Footer (Page numbers, title, date / time of print)
• Watermark
• Page sizes (A4, letter, etc) and options
• Print as user X or group Y, which can use to personalize or redact text. Can we use PluginGroup or should be go for creating a PluginRedact?
• etc.

Other ideas

• It would be nice to use a wiki page to make the template to layout the header / footer / etc.
• Maybe there should be a way to override some mPDF params via a wiki plugin? ex: force a page break. This page in landscape mode. force another page break. This page in portrait mode. Ex.: {print break=page} {print layout=portrait}

Related links

• http://www.sitepoint.com/10-jquery-print-page-options/

• Bootstrap print