Make PDF Newspaper

The ‘Make PDF Newspaper’ plugin replaces the Make Tabbloid to automatically create printer friendly ‘tabloid’ editions of your WordPress blog in an attractive 2 column magazine/newspaper format. Development of the original plugin stopped after HP removed API access to their service. The new plugin uses code developed for the Five Filters PDF Newspaper project , which in itself pulls together code from a number of other open source projects including TCPDF , HTML Purifier , SimplePie and SmartyPants

The plugin includes a widget to let you control how you advertise your ‘tabloid edition’. You can also choose to display a thumbnail of your custom newsletter (powered by Bluga.net Webthumb ) to let your readers see what they are missing.

Key features

• Option to generate PDF from externally hosted versions of the Five Filters code
• Option to generate PDF editions of selected categories or archives
• PDF generation entirely self-hosted removing reliance on 3rd party services and making it suitable for Intranet installations of WordPress
• Option to include QR codes for each post (and custom text for user intructions)
• Customisable banner text and logo
• Option to automatically footnote all the links which appear in a post (using tinyurl or bitly to shorten long links)
• Integrated widget to display thumbnail of your publication
• User controlled production of PDF (including secure urls to trigger pdf generation via cron services. See FAQ for more information)

See the ‘screenshot’ for a summary of the features.

For an example of its usage visit http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/

Thanks to

This plugin is made possible by the hard work of Keyvan Minoukadeh creator of Five Filters PDF Newspaper and Jonathan Lyon who nudged me on.