INSTALLATION ------------ Decompress the print-n.x-n.n.tar.gz file into your Drupal modules directory (usually sites/all/modules, see http://drupal.org/node/176044 for more information). Enable the print module: Administer > Site building > Modules (admin/build/modules) PDF TOOL -------- The print_pdf module requires the use of an external PDF generation tool. The currently supported tools are dompdf and TCPDF. Please note that any errors/bugs in those tools need to be reported and fixed by their maintainers. DO NOT report bugs in those tools in the print module's issue queue at Drupal.org. dompdf support: The dompdf tool produces results that are more faithful to the HTML printer-friendly page. 1. Download dompdf from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dompdf/ 2. Extract the contents of the downloaded package into the print module directory (usually sites/all/modules/print) 3. Check if dompdf_config.inc.php fits your installation. In 99% of cases, no changes are necessary, so just try to use it and only edit anything if the PDF generation fails. 4. Grant write access to the lib/fonts directory to your webserver user. 5. If you're using dompdf-0.5.1, delete the dompdf.php file as it contains a security vulnerability 6. Check http://www.digitaljunkies.ca/dompdf/ for further information. TCPDF support: TCPDF seems to be more actively developed than dompdf, but it's support for CSS is considerably worse. This module requires TCPDF >= 4.0.000. 1. Download TCPDF from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/ 2. Extract the contents of the downloaded package into the print module directory (usually sites/all/modules/print). There is no need to modify the config/tcpdf_config.php file, as the module self-configures TCPDF. 3. Check http://tcpdf.sourceforge.net/ for further information. UPDATE ------ When updating from a previous version, just remove the print directory and follow the instructions above. Make sure that you backup any costumization to the print.tpl.php and print.css files. ROBOTS ------ Even though it is possible to set per-page robots settings, the following can be placed in your robots.txt file after the User-agent line to prevent search engines from even asking for the page: Disallow: /print/ Also, for updates from older versions (<=4.7.x-1.0 and <=5.x-1.2) which used node/nnn/print instead of print/nnn, the following lines can prevent requests from Google for the obsolete print URLs: Disallow: /*/print$ Note that pattern matching in robots.txt is a Google extension (see http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40367 for more information). // $Id$