Features / Usability

Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist 24 Sep 2018 07:43 GMT-0000 posts: 8652

Hey John,

Please let us know if Wiebe suggestion solved the issue.

Posted by Wiebe 25 Sep 2018 13:30 GMT-0000 posts: 37

Can you please try to edit
\themes\base_files\css\printpdf.css

html { background:#fff; color:#000; }
body { background:#fff; color:#000 }

html { background:#fff!important; color:#000; }
body { background:#fff!important; color:#000; }

Will that work for you?

Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist 25 Sep 2018 21:31 GMT-0000 posts: 8652

What about adding a "print" style in your Control Panel => Look & Feel => Custom => Custom CSS ?
Not sure in your case (mpdf), but worth the try.

@media print {
  body {
    margin: 0;
    color: #000;
    background-color: #fff;
  }
}

Posted by John Morris 25 Sep 2018 22:21 GMT-0000 posts: 758

I gave it a shot Bernard, thanks for your help, but it did not work either.
I can print fine, regular printing works beautifully, I get the white background. But when saving as PDF, the pages are black.

Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist 26 Sep 2018 06:31 GMT-0000 posts: 8652

Ha ha...

Then I will try harder to tweak "\themes\base_files\css\printpdf.css" as Wiebe mentioned.

Good luck,

Posted by John Morris 28 Sep 2018 13:03 GMT-0000 posts: 758

After applying the correct css that Bernard supplied above, here is my latest attempt for printing by PDF, the background is white now, although some graphic issues remain, I am not sure how to fix those.
Please see attached.
Page attempting to print: https://thepatriotwoodwiki.org/Eastern-Hemlock

Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist 28 Sep 2018 13:40 GMT-0000 posts: 8652

Ah, good to read it is getting somewhere ! 😊

I create a PDF and see some other element you need to "neutralise" like you did for the background.
You need to create css rules for header, block menus, etc.

Posted by John Morris 28 Sep 2018 13:51 GMT-0000 posts: 758

Another issue I have is images are not populating the page being printed. Is my issue related to this: https://dev.tiki.org/item6689-mpdf-images-are-not-shown-in-printed-pdf-with-default-syntax-and-never-in-some-servers

Hey folks, is there a PDF printing solution that works out of the box without much hacking? Thanks!

Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist 28 Sep 2018 18:15 GMT-0000 posts: 8652

Sorry to flatter someone that deserve it... 😉

I suggest you recap all your CSS and style problem and hire Luci to solve it all for a few bucks. Even if we can try to suggest and copy code from here and there there is nothing like a professional designer that understand Tiki and CSS taking care of your website.

It did wonders me on mine and his work worth every penny spent.

Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist 29 Sep 2018 01:25 GMT-0000 posts: 8652

Hi John,

mpdf is pretty new in Tiki and as I don’t use it myself I can’t tell if it is "broken" or not.
What I know is that people (corporate company running Tiki) are using it successfully.
It may require some knowledge to tweak and do final tuning but, that’s a kind of normal for an advanced feature.

While I understand your frustration, I don’t think it is fair to blame Tiki.
Unless you do basic things, any webapp will require developper, configurator or webmaster skills at some point.
There are hundreds of Wordpress (supposed to be 3clicks running, super simple) specialised freelancer (coder, designer, websmaster, IT Admin, etc) that are making much more money than we do on Tiki... There must be a good reason. 😉

But back to your website my point was to save you time.
In the end it’s like many task we have to deal with.
Or you have time to learn and experiment or you pay someone else to avoid wasting time and focus on your project.

In any any any case, we’ll be sad to see you go away. 😉

PS : I went at http://seeds4c.org/Ubuntu+16.04+LTS+for+Human+Beans to check the image issue. It worked fine for me on Safari MacOSX. (I could see the pictures)