WordPress PDF Templates

常見問題集

Installation Instructions

1. Download and activate the plugin.
2. Installation done! You can now navigate to any post or page on your website and append /pdf/ (or &pdf if not using pretty permalinks) to the URL to view a glorious PDF version of it.

I activated the plugin but can’t see any difference. What do I do?

WordPress PDF Templates works quietly in the backround without cluttering your wp-admin with unnecessary menus and views.

To see this plugin in action, try navigating to any post or page on your site and appending /pdf/ to the URL.

My PDF is displaying the wrong post content

Is your content access-restricted? In that case, all you need to do is enable cookies for the plugin with define('FETCH_COOKIES_ENABLED', true); in your wp-config.php

You can also try clearing the PDF cache by hard-refreshing your browser or disabling the PDF cache altogether with define( 'DISABLE_PDF_CACHE', true )

How do I enable PDF Templates for custom post types?

You can define supported post types in your theme functions.php with set_pdf_print_support($post_types)

The set_pdf_print_support function takes an array of post types (strings) as a parameter.

Example:
// add pdf print support to post type ‘product’
if(function_exists(‘set_pdf_print_support’)) {
set_pdf_print_support(array(‘post’, ‘page’, ‘product’));
}

I don’t like the way my PDF printing looks. How do I change it?

Just copy index-pdf.php from wp-content/plugins/wp-pdf-templates/ into your theme directory and start editing!

If you wish to define different templates for different post types, you can do that too! Let’s say you wish to create a new PDF template for pages. Just create a file called ‘page-pdf.php’ and create your template there. Note that this only works when a page.php exists in your theme.

Can I change the PDF output paper size, orientation or DPI?

Yes! You can define settings for the DOMPDF Library by editing your wp-config.php.

Example:
// use landscape A4 sized paper @ 180 DPI
define(‘DOMPDF_PAPER_SIZE’, ‘A4’);
define(‘DOMPDF_PAPER_ORIENTATION’, ‘landscape’);
define(‘DOMPDF_DPI’, 180);

See DOMPDF documentation for more options.

My fonts don’t show in the PDF. Can I fix that?

DOMPDF needs the proper font files to generate PDF files. There’s a font adder utility built in to DOMPDF you can use to import any TrueType fonts. See this link for instructions: https://code.google.com/p/dompdf/wiki/Installation