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Perhaps an option would be agreeable? It sucks that the low-fi version uses the default background color, I do know that IPB3 will be better about the lo-fi version but a administrative choice of PDF or not may be nice. <_<

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Firstly, to "create" PDF's you either need some PHP library (I've seen some that can do it) to do it, or server-level addons (e.g. PHP modules or some other server level application).

Given the license schemes of the various non-server-based PDF generation scripts I've seen, I don't think we'd be able to ship them.

Thus, there isn't a reliable way to add this. You can't just "create" PDFs - you need software that can do it.

Modders looking to do it, you'd need to grab one of the following

http://us.php.net/pdf
http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpag...?aiocp_dp=tcpdf
http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php

Just google it - I think there's some others (I've seen ones that make you do postscript, then convert it to ghostscript or something like that).

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An alternative is screenshotting and saving as PNG or JPG ... you can use the Fireshot extension for Firefox to do this... "Capture entire page".

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An alternative is screenshotting and saving as PNG or JPG ... you can use the Fireshot extension for Firefox to do this... "Capture entire page".


I never relay on the users browser to do something on my site/forum.
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I never relay on the users browser to do something on my site/forum.



Of course you do... they'd have a hard time accessing the content of your site without a browser ;)
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Of course you do... they'd have a hard time accessing the content of your site without a browser ;)


Very true.
I mean if they all don't support it, I don't use it.

I know Mac does this, and I thought Vista did too... If you go to File > Print, there's an option to Save as PDF.


Only if they have a PDF creator is install, if I'm correct. For Windows anyway.

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