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In the absence of printing facilities in Formidable Forms, I have had to resort to finding a suitable plugin.  Unfortunately the plugins that are available are far from satisfactory, that is, you don't get what you see.  The output is distorted.  My view has a table, the plugin DKPDF distorts the tables.

Has anyone had any success at printing, and could they recommend something.

David

I use DK PDF plugin by Emili Castells. You can select the specific page(s) you want to provide the convert to PDF button to appear on. When you click the button it converts the page to pdf and opens in another tab. There are various settings to choose from and I have found it to work for our application without issue. You would then print the PDF.

Printing html tables can be tricky. Plugins do what they think are best, but that doesn't always get you what YOU want. If there are a lot of columns in your table, you may not get what you want. You're probably going to be best of tweaking the print dialog settings from your browser and reducing the scale of the printout so that more of your data shows up on the print out.

Many thanks for the replies.  I am already using DKPDF and it is this that is reproducing distorted tables.  If you follow this link:

http://ramsdaleseniors.co.uk/edit-the-team/entry/4106/

That is what it is supposed to look like, however.  Follow this link to see the view to print, all is not well!

http://ramsdaleseniors.co.uk/edit-the-team/entry/4106/?pdf=8499

Regards

 

David

David,

I assume you've played with different settings for the plugin? http://wp.dinamiko.com/demos/dkpdf/documentation/

Have you tried playing with the available shortcode to remove pieces of information from the page?

http://wp.dinamiko.com/demos/dkpdf/doc/dkpdf-remove-shortcode/

 

Many thanks for that, I did look, but to my eternal shame not too closely.  I will re-visit this.

Regards

David

Thank you everyone for your help.  I have now solved my problem.

David

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