I'm agree with you, Tino. Plone has a lot of ugly features (as KSS, for instance)

Perhaps someone has a better solution for this issue

I only want to generate a PDF with the print view of a plone point

Plone2PDF will be ok but only works with Plone 2.5 or less

2008/10/8 Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>
Garito wrote:


2008/10/8 Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de <mailto:tino@wildenhain.de>>


   Garito wrote:

       Perhaps is better if I explain you what I'm trying to do

       Imagine a Plone site (I know there are a plone list but this is
       a generic question, sorry if not)

       I configure it in the way if you put a parameter ?print the
       plone point renders as when you push the print button at the
       bottom of the point

       For example: plone_site_url/front-page?print renders the plone
       front page with the print.css sytle

       Now I want to get the rendered code of this point as string to
       pass it to PDFNode.renderAsPdf (it expect a string with the HTML
       and the name of the generated pdf)

       Did you know how can I get the html code of an url with get
       parameters?


   just context['front-page'](print=True) ?


Perhaps but this puts print on options/args/print or options/print in the page_template scope, isn't it?

In my way to solve this I use request/form/print because plone_css use tal expressions and request is passed to it

This would be very ugly. However in this case just set context.REQUEST
or context.REQUEST.form accordingly

HTH
Tino



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