Printing to PDF

iBoy · Post by **iBoy** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:32 am

I want to print my movie collection to a pdf file to share it with my friends. Anything that can be printed can be printed to a pdf file. The advantage with pdf is that it is searchable. If I could make one page for each entry, I had a fully searchable database that I easily could share with others.

The problem is: how can I print pages separated with one entry per page? I can make an HTML template with one entry per page, but I cannot print more than one page from my web browser. And if I make one long list, with all entries on the same page, it would be impossible to cut or separate these correctly when printing.

Post by **Conor** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 6:15 am

Go with the second option of creating one long list and at the end of each entry in your template include the CSS page-break:always to force a printed page for each entry.

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<div style="page-break-after:always"></div>

Don't get fancy with avoid and other properties as they are not supported by Safari.

iBoy · Post by **iBoy** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:03 pm

Thank you very much! The code worked perfectly. But one HTML page with all the entries turns pretty unmanageable on large collections. And the pictures are not as sharp on the pdf file as on the web page. So maybe this wasn't the best idea I've had after all.

Post by **Conor** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:04 am

Be sure to scale the images using DVDpedia to the set size of your template. DVDpedia is much better at scaling than the web browser. You can set these values directly in your template with:

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<meta name="image-export" content="yes" /> <!-- Export images always -->
<meta name="image-width" content="200" /> <!-- I made these up -->
<meta name="image-height" content="260" />
<meta name="image-compression" content="1.0" /> <!-- No compression -->

Here is more information.