Posted by nachenko on December 13, 2008 at 1:14pm
Regards.
I've been asked about this possibility: create a site containing a product list. This is the easy part. The difficult part is having everytime a PDF copy of this product list, that is having an up-to-date printable catalog, with cover and all that.
You get the point? Instead of having a printed catalog and a dude updating the website stuff, we only keep updated the website's product list and generate a new version of the catalog, including cover and other stuff, pressing "click" somewhere in the website.
Categories: catalog, E-Commerce, node list, pdf, pdf generation, product list
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any news?
I'd be very interested in this feature as well. Have you heard anything further about it?
Money...
Well, the customer thought twice when I said the magic words: "it will cost...", so this issue is "solved" for me.
Oh no...
...I need this feature, but all my searches failed! :(
..anyone knows a starting module? ...some useful script...?
I"m thinking about the
I"m thinking about the possibility to generate a pdf from any view.
I think this will be amazing.
looking for the same. but my
looking for the same.
but my quest just starts, will let know sometyhing if i found something. :)
Possibility of Catalog-on-Demand for Drupal
Hello,
We have a subscription-based web service that allows non-technical business people to produce professional-quality PDF catalogs from their e-commerce site. This service, called Catalog-on-Demand, has a starting subscription fee of around 10ドル per month.
We have been in business for more than 15 years. Until recently, almost all of our customers were large companies. Now we are focused on bringing our technology to small- and medium-sized businesses who already have e-commerce sites. The benefit to these businesses is that custom catalogs help them continue to sell AFTER the visitor has left the e-commerce site.
While we are experts in the field of automated publishing, we are not e-commerce or Drupal experts. Therefore, we would like to partner with a developer who is familiar with Drupal extensions. Our preference would be to enter into a revenue-sharing arrangement with such a developer. The first version, for purposes of testing the waters, should take less than 10 hours of development. It involves transforming the product information into a text string using our datafile format, and then packaging that string in an api call. You don't need to know anything about publishing. That is handled on our end!
If you are a developer interested in partnering with us, please contact me via this forum. I'll be glad to provide samples and more details.
BTW, this concept applies to any kind of content, not just products. We've been focused on product catalogs because that is where there is the greatest need. But there are probably a lot of Drupal sites that would like to produce high-quality PDF renderings of user-selected content.
Tim Hennings
Catalog-on-Demand
That's great news
Thanks "Catalog-on-Demand" for your interest in Drupal.
Although I don't inmediately need this feature because the customer that requested it changed his mind, I'm still interested on it, as I think there's a market for it.
Besides developing modules and sites for Drupal, I'm also member of the ImpressCMS developer board, another system I currently work with. I'd like to check your system and see how it could be connected to both Drupal and ImpressCMS. Samples and additional info is welcome. Let me have a look!