Create word or pdf brochure

[kev67]

This has been mentioned several times over the years but is there really any software/website that would create a brochure of an Actinic website, rather than "Mr Customer" having to print out every web page to read what I sell?

I've tried Activestock.co.uk but I don't reckon they are in business now??

Thanks

[leehack]

There was a post on this very recently, search through Chris Ashdown's posts, sure it was him who asked.

[EdHarrison]

Tried this a couple of years ago, cant remember where I found it but was not very successful, lots of changes to make it look presentable.

[malbro]

This has been mentioned several times over the years but is there really any software/website that would create a brochure of an Actinic website, rather than "Mr Customer" having to print out every web page to read what I sell?

I've tried Activestock.co.uk but I don't reckon they are in business now??

Thanks

Well the web site is still running and they have a demo version of the ir software that you can download.

[Paul Bulpit]

I haven't a clue how to go about it, but Jont (forum member) once mentioned that this could be done using a print.css stylesheet?

[dalydesign]

I've tried the software and its a little raw. Also, you can't select variables to show/hide.

So I made one for my client:

• I imported my clients Google Mash XML file into my cllients MySQL database.
• Then built this page: http://www.nielsencdg.co.uk/brochure.php to display all products
• Finally printed the page as PDF (using a PDF printer driver)

That worked nicely.!

I can select each variable to show/hide and if I need more variables, I just ensure they're in the XML file.

However there are 2 problems...

1. sectioning the products is a pain... I've created a new custom variable and asked the client to insert a category for each product then I can group by category when building the PHP page.
   
2. Page break (for printing) is also an issue as some pages can print a product title on the bottom of a page, then print the product image on the top of the next page... this can only be resolved by designing the page layout to be pixel perfect. I can add the HTML command for a page break, but because each product is a repeat region, we can't tell it to insert a page break after every 9 products.