Important PDF generation

Hello.
I've used pdf generator in Kunena 1.5. and this function had stayed enabled in 1.6.rc3, but I cann't find the link for it in the frontend now.
Where is it??

Fizmatik wrote: Hello.
I've used pdf generator in Kunena 1.5. and this function had stayed enabled in 1.6.rc3 ...

No, there is a K 1.6 configuration setting called Enable PDF Creation but there is no corresponding function for it. We will probably receive this question a few times so I'll try to give you the best explanation that I can.

There wasn't enough time to build a PDF generation function for K 1.6 - too many other things happened. People can generate PDF output of their web pages in many ways without needing Joomla (or a Joomla extension) to do it for them. For example, there is printpdf for Firefox .

I'm sorry if this comes as a disappointment but that's my understanding of the facts: there is a configuration setting in K 1.6 but there isn't the functionality to go with it.

I see. Thank you

I think you should remove this configuration setting to avoid such questions,shouldn't you?

I agree with you. This will be done eventually. It's not a very high priority issue at the moment.

Hi,

I just upgraded from 1.5.9 to 1.6 and also found out that the PDF tool isn't working anymore; I can understand that fixing this hasn't a high priority, but the PDF tool seems to work fine in this forum over here; so is there a workaround?

Grtz,

Jessy

Sorry. At the moment there isn't a fully reliable PDF generation function; there are currently a couple of minor issues regarding message sensitivity that need to be worked through. This is something that you will need to wait for a fix.

I believe that we have already fixed many of the issues with PDF.

Ok, but I still have a problem with it after migrating Kunena 1.5.9 to 1.6: in the Kunena 1.6 configuration I have enabled PDF creation (there's not more to it right?), but then in Internet Explorer 8 the Acrobat icon at the end of threads is not clickable and in FireFox 3.6.10 it is clickable, but when I click on it, I get an error message saying: "File does not begin with '%PDF-'"; then I can click on "Ok", but all I get is an empty black screen ...

There is something which instroduce bad content in the pdf page and so acrobat can't open it. Maybe you have a plugin/components which alter the kunena pdf generation..