将基于表的表单复制为PDF视图输出？ -- views 领域 和 theming 领域 和 files 领域 和 printing 领域 drupal 相关 的问题

The Drupal 6 project I'm working on involves a custom content type with a bunch of different elements. I'm needing to replicate an existing form -- see screenshot.

Ultimately, I need to take the data stored in the CCK fields attached to this content type, and rebuild them as a table as per the screenshot. It then needs to be savable as a PDF.

It seems like there are two ways of doing PDF content of the nature I'm wanting:

• Views PDF -- cumbersome as heck to configure; requires manually positioning each field.
• Print -- I can't figure out how to directly access the CCK field variables through its $print object; consequently, I can't rebuild this as a table.

How would one go about taking a lot of CCK fields, formatting them as a table, then making that PDF-able?

Thanks.

Edit: To clarify, I have each row of, say, the FAC table stored as a row in the content type, through a compound/multifield module called "Flexifield". Data isn't stored as per the table; it's stored as a label ("level"), a decimal number and a boolean (above or below grade?). Another boolean toggles between Imperial and Metric for the entire sheet. The columns are generated by converting the number stored to either Imperial or Metric, depending on which the stored measurement is set as. Consequently, I'll ultimately need a way to tweak and restructure the data using PHP. This is why I can't, for instance, just tell the fields to display as a table.

I've done exactly this using the Print module.

Basically, you can build a view to display all of the cck data that need, and embed that view into a new page template which you've pointed to using hook_theme from a custom module.

In my case, I created the template named property_report.tpl.php and dropped all of the views that I wanted to pdf into that page. To print a pdf of any content on your website using the Print module, you just build the url like so:

www.example.com/printpdf/nid

You have the following options:

1. If you count with a predefined and fixed layout with always the same lines/columns, go create a PDF form and populate it with the Fill PDF module.
2. If the columns/lines are dynamically generated by your datas so I'll build an excel version of your datas with PHPExcel and use the save file as PDF. PHPExcel is quite simple to use and I think it's the easiest way to create tabular datas in PDF. Download it and have a look at the examples they're quite intuitives.

Just a shot in the dark, but the Slickgrid module may be of help in this situation. Here is an excerpt about it from the module's project page:

... is an implementation of Michael Leibman's jquery slickgrid plugin, a lightening fast JavaScript grid/spreadsheet.

It defines a slickgrid view style, so all data can be output as an editable grid.

Certainly looks like some PDF modules are available ... if only in-development.

As an alternative, just fyi, we've done similar display & PDF export of formatted data within a CMS (not Drupal ... yet), where we've split the problem, moving high volume PDF generation to a Tomcat-hosted document processing app.

We query & format data for online display from within the CMS, taking advantage of query-building and display tools (like CCK?) then export data in any available, well-defined XML format. Next, external XSLT transform of the data to XSL-FO format, and finally conversion/generation of PDF using Apache FOP (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/#intro) running on a Tomcat servlet container (If you already have Solr running on Tomcat, it's convenient ...).

We've done this for transformation of flexible online medical record presentation to strictly-formatted PDF for print and electronic delivery. The fine-grained control of the XML -> XSL-FO transformation, using Xalan, Xerces, etc. results in 'professional quality' output, and offloading to heavier-iron ensures we've never bogged down the CMS.

All depends on what your particular needs are.