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Save thread as pdf

32 votes

Submitted by darkteller, 1st August 2007, 10:28:43 AM

Just a suggestion, don't know if it can be really done, but I would like the opportunity to save the whole formatted thread as an acrobat reader document.

9 Comments

  1. Another thumb up here.

    I'm not sure if all the currant ideas for ways of saving mybb would be good to have but I like this idea. I think if they had some drop down menu with a list of options it wouldn't be bad, just if they didn't i'd be wondering if all was needed.

    Kudos
    ~Kerrang!

    Kerrang!, 1st August 2007, 4:05:26 PM

  2. It is a feature in php (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php) so it might be possible. It would make a good plugin.

    DrPoodle, 1st August 2007, 4:32:12 PM

  3. Formatted as in with colour and such? I don't know how pdf formats is but I doubt it is like html, so we'd have to make a pdf parser then. Not sure how hard that would be though.

    CraKteR, 2nd August 2007, 7:01:41 PM

  4. I think that formatted just with the bbcode would be a great thing. I mean: bold, italic, images, and these two or three things. I've never seen a save as pdf with support for the css, and I don't even believe is possible. But for what i mean take a look at this (an example): http://www.jxdevelopment.com/ where you see acrobat icons.

    darkteller, 3rd August 2007, 10:03:08 PM

  5. So you mean just show the bbcode as it is? [bbcode_here]some text here[/bbcode_here]? That's easy then. I'm not sure how much it would be used though. I never use pdf to be honest.

    CraKteR, 5th August 2007, 12:32:28 AM

  6. FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org/) is a beautiful class to create PDFs in PHP. HTML2FDPF (http://html2fpdf.sourceforge.net/) is an even better solution, because you can create PDFs from an HTML page.

    Aries-Belgium, 6th August 2007, 5:50:34 PM

  7. don't bulk up myBB anymore. If you want PDF versions of pages, install one of the many free Print to PDF print drivers out there and "print" the pages yourself.

    bullzip is a simple, free and easy solution that I use all the time for saving pages

    pavemen, 9th August 2007, 3:02:24 AM

  8. I think this would be a very nice feature. +1

    TylerGillen, 3rd August 2008, 10:06:13 PM

  9. When I need PDF from a thread i use the printable version of the thread and print it using PDFcreator

    Cammino, 30th August 2008, 10:49:34 PM

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