On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 11:47 PM, Thibaut Camberlin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was writing a piece of code so that PDF export prints associated meta
> data
> > of a page. Since I was in PDF macros code, I worked on a PDF export
> options
> > page.
> >
> > By working on the PDF export options, I am using check boxes that allows
> > user to choose to export or not cover page, toc page, metadata page
> > attachments and comments. Issue I encountered is that when a check box is
> > not checked it is not set and I found no way to use check boxes with
> actual
> > code from pdfhtmlheader.vm page:
> >
> > #if("$!request.pdfcover" != '0')
> > #set($displayPdfCover = 1)
> > #else
> > #set($displayPdfCover = 0)
> > #end
> > and the same for pdftoc
>
> You don't need to do that at all. The trick is to put:
>
> <label><input type="checkbox" value="1" name="pdfcover"/> Cover</label>
> <input type="hidden" value="0" name="pdfcover" />
>
> If the checkbox is selected, the browser sends both values to the
> server: pdfcover=1&pdfcover=0
>
> But request.pdfcover gets the first value it sees, 1.
>
> If the checkbox is unselected, the browser sends only the hidden value:
> pdfcover=0, so request.pdfcover will be 0.
>
> This is how the checkbox display of object properties is implemented as
> well.
>
Hum, ok. I found that technique on the net but it seems I did not get the
parameter correctly. Thanks for the info.
>
> But yes, displaying the PDF options is something that I wanted to do as
> well, just that I never had the time for it.
>
Great. So is this going to be done via Multipage export (I am fine with that
but we need to have a simplified UI for when you are on a page and what to
export it, using options) or is it going to be stand alone (in which case I
can polish my code and contribute on a jira to be created) ?
>
> > (I could have put<input value="0"/> instead but it makes more sense to
> have
> > <input value="1"/>)
> >
> > Therefore I am proposing that we:
> > * update pdfhtmlheader.vm page so that cover and toc page are not
> exported
> > by default
> > * update existing pdf export button so that we keep the same behaviour
> > (pdfcover and pdftoc printed in PDF), meaning instead of
> > *page?format=pdf*it would be
> > *page?format=pdf&pdftoc=1&pdfcover=1*
> >
> > Some UI will be needed afterward so that this page is exposed. (I am not
> > planning to work on this.)
> >
> > The export options would be made in a template, but I put the code in
> this
> > page of the incubator so that it makes things clearer if needed:
> > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/PDFExport/ExportOptions
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback on pdfhtmlheader.vm modification and on the
> feature
> > itself.
> > --
> > Thibaut
>
>
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> Sergiu Dumitriu
> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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