Need to have print /save to pdf feature on each page in Help

[hranga81]

Hi,

Is it possible to have Save as PDF functionality in each page or topic of the Web Help?

Please find the image attached for more clarity.

SaveAsPDFmadcapForum.png

If I need to have this functionality, where do I code for the same?

Thanks,
Harini

[ChoccieMuffin]

Don't know about the PDF bit, but a user can print a page of the help file. However, when you do so the printout uses the PRINT medium rather than whatever medium you've used for the help.

I'll let people much more expert than me to answer the other one.

[RamonS]

One option would be to generate PDFs for each topic and make that button a link to the applicable file. Aside from that, you'd either need some server side processing or do it client side using JavaScript. See here: https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF

[Thomas Tregner]

One option would be to generate PDFs for each topic and make that button a link to the applicable file. Aside from that, you'd either need some server side processing or do it client side using JavaScript. See here: https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF

Interesting idea. If there are many topics, I think the trick would be to:

• Programatically create a target for each topic in a TOC
• Group those in a batch target or to programatically generate madbuild.exe commands for each single topic target
• Programatically insert links to the PDF into each topic or use a script to generate the link based on the currently viewed topic

Is this a common requirement? Would a plug-in for this be useful?

[RamonS]

A plugin that does the conversion client side would be beneficial...otherwise you need to drag twice the amount of files around after a build. Although I'm not a fan of client side anything for performance reasons the impact in this case may be small enough to be irrelevant.

[Thomas Tregner]

...otherwise you need to drag twice the amount of files around after a build.

I hear you there. I think there are pros and cons to approaches. I've seen this requirement more than once. But I'm personally satisfied with the print button.