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I have tried PDF using mPDF and Printer-friendly pages (Drupal 7.x). They both need own styling of an output. I have got a CSS that formats my pages for printing. I would like to generate PDFs by just "printing" to them. I do not want to maintain separate styles.

Is there a module that generate a PDF file with an output that would be sent to a printer?

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  • If you need css handling I guess your best bet would a local webserver that takes screenshots, there are plenty of similar question on stackoverflow for that issue. but for sake of ease implement any webservice for that, I made some good experience with convertapi.com additionally you will probably have to make sure the right css is used for that request.
    – Andre Baumeier
    Commented Mar 17, 2013 at 3:23

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Try Printer, email and PDF versions module.

This module allows you to generate the following printer-friendly versions of any node:

Printer-friendly version (webpage format) (at www.example.com/print/nid)

PDF version (at www.example.com/printpdf/nid)

Send by email (at www.example.com/printmail/nid)

where nid is the node id of content to render.

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  • It uses its own print.tpl.php template. I would like something that builds a content using my hmtl.tpl.php, page.tpl.php etc.
    – NetExpert
    Commented Mar 16, 2013 at 17:25
  • @NetExpert, how can you do that? If we use page.tpl.php we will get all css/images in print page. If you still want to use page.tpl.php consider invoking the theme fn provided by that module
    – niksmac
    Commented Mar 17, 2013 at 4:06
  • @nikhil-m I use CSS (print media) to hide what I do not want. You can look at Zen template for an example. The module makes an output inconsistent. You receive a different looking page that one you receive by using a print command of a browser.
    – NetExpert
    Commented Mar 17, 2013 at 7:53
  • @nikhil-m Using a theme function looks promising. I replaced print.tpl.php content with <?php print theme('html', $variables); ?>. I have got my html now. However a page content is missing. How should I build a render array for a page (I believe I could add it within theme_preprocess_print())?
    – NetExpert
    Commented Mar 17, 2013 at 9:28
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    @NetExpert, take a look at how they print/render content in print.tpl.php
    – niksmac
    Commented Mar 17, 2013 at 10:18

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