Long Articles
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Last Post: February 14, 2012 (RSS)
By Toledoh - February 7, 2012
Just after some pointers...
I've a client that is producing reports, typically about 14 pages or so, with text, charts, references etc.
Rather than produce them in Word, or even InDesign etc, I'm thinking of publishing them direct to web via CMSB. Then, print version via the PDF plugin.
Has anyone done much of this? If so, have you got it looking professional? how do you handle pagination (automatically at heading levels?)
Would love your thoughts.
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Re: [Toledoh] Long Articles
By Jason - February 8, 2012
One way to approach this would be to have each page be a separate record. This would make pagination easy to deal with. The PDF print version could be a page that just ouputs each record of the report.
Of course, the simpliest solution would be to have the report created as a PDF using another program, and then uploaded to CMS Builder to publish it on the web.
Hope this helps
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Re: [Jason] Long Articles
By Toledoh - February 8, 2012
I was thinking, wouldn't there be some way of putting in a something like "***page-break*** that could then be replaced by an if statement that converted it to either tabs, or some kind of pagination?
Just thinking...
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Re: [Toledoh] Long Articles
By gkornbluth - February 9, 2012 - edited: February 9, 2012
There are 2 CSS properties, page-break-after and page-break-before that you can apply to your elements to try and keep things organized.
Here's a link to the spec.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/#pg-br-before-after
There's also some information on handling page breaks in the readme file in your /cmsAdmin/plugins/createPDF/wkhtmltopdf folder
Problem is that there's still limited browser support for these properties and a lot of caveats. (Have a look at the page break section at http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/
I've never tried, but once you get the simple case working you might be able to combine those properties with if statements comparing word counts or line counts with paragraphs to determine the length of pages. (also just thinking...)
I've also found that image are a bit tricky and sometimes can span pages.
Hope that gets you started.
I'd be interested in hearing about your successes and the challenges you encounter along the way.
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Re: [gkornbluth] Long Articles
By Toledoh - February 9, 2012
I think I'm going to try to work through a system using jquery tabs... I'll let you know how I progress.
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Re: [Jason] Long Articles
By Toledoh - February 9, 2012 - edited: February 9, 2012
I want to enter something like **break-tab1** in the WYSIWYG, and then use something like
<?php echo str_replace('**break',......
to get
<span class="tab1">tab1</span>
Any ideas?
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Re: [Toledoh] Long Articles
By Jason - February 14, 2012
If you know how many tabs you need you could try something like this:
Example:
<?php
$content = $record['content'];
foreach (range(1, 5) as $tab) {
$placeHolder = "**break-tab$tab**";
$tabHTML = "<span class = \"tab$tab\">tab$tab</span>";
$content = str_replace($placeHolder, $tabHTML, $content);
}
?>
<?php echo $content; ?>This would work for tabs 1 - 5
Hope this helps
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