Note: The “PDF” button placed within the chosen month will generate a PDF file with all the published posts in the associated month. The “PDF” button placed within a particular post will generate a PDF file with a content associated with this particular post.

2.2. Buttons Position

Use the “Buttons Position” to choose the position in the content.

2.2.1. Top left position of buttons will look on a page as follows.

2.2.2. Top right position of buttons will look on a page as follows.

2.2.3. Bottom left position of buttons will look on a page as follows.

2.2.4. Bottom right position of buttons will look on a page as follows.

2.2.5. Top & Bottom Left position of buttons will look on a page as follows.

2.2.6. Top & Bottom Right position of buttons will look on a page as follows.

2.3. Button Image

Use the “Button Image” option to choose the images you prefer for the PDF & Print buttons.

2.3.1. Choose “None” to hide the button images completely.

2.3.2. Choose the “Default” to display the button images set by default.

2.3.3. Choose the “Custom” to set the custom images of the buttons.

Note: We recommend using 100x100 px images to achieve the best result.

2.3.4. After saving changes the custom icons placed on a post/page may look as follows.

2.4. Button Title

Use the “Button Title” option to specify a custom title displayed for each button.

2.4.1. After saving changes the custom titles placed on a post/page may look as follows.

2.4.2. In case the “Button Images” option is set to “None”, titles with no images will be displayed instead of icons.

2.5. Print Preview Window

Enable the “Print Preview Window” option to display a print preview window with the advanced settings.

2.5.1. Click the “Print” button to display a default print preview window.

2.6. Search Engine Visibility

Enable the “Search Engine Visibility” option to disallow search engines from indexing PDF & Print pages.

2.7. Default PDF Button Action

Use the “Default PDF Button Action” option to choose the default action that will be applied when a user clicks the PDF button.

2.7.1. Choose the “Download PDF” if you want to download a PDF-file on a local drive.

2.7.2. Choose the “Open PDF” if you want to open a PDF file preview in a separate browser window.

2.7.3. Choose the “Send to mail PDF” option if you want to send the PDF version of the page directly to a specified email address.

2.8. Default Print Button Action

Use the “Default Print Button Action” option to select how the Print button should work.

2.8.1. Choose the “Plugin functions” option to use the built-in print functionality provided by the plugin.

2.8.2. Choose the “CTRL + P” option to simulate the CTRL + P keyboard shortcut and open the browser’s print dialog.

2.9. Show count of PDF/Print generation

Enable this option to display the number of PDF/Print generations next to the PDF/Print button.

2.9.1. The counter on the post page will look as follows.

2.9.2. The counter on the list of posts/pages will look as follows.

2.10. Non-Login Users

Use the “Non-Login Users” option to display button for the website guests.

2.11. Unique URL for Button

Use the “Unique URL for Button” option If you have caching scripts on your server and the button document displays cached content, you can make it a unique link to the document.

2.11.1. The unique URL will look as follows.

3. Output

Use the options of the “Output” tab to make the settings regarding the output of the document.

3.1. Full Page Capture to PDF

Enable the “Full Page Capture to PDF” option to render the PDF files using the same fonts and styles as displayed on the page.

3.1.1. After saving changes the PDF file will be displayed with the original page styles and layout.

3.2. Default PDF File Name

Use the “Default PDF File Name” option to define the title for the generated PDF file.

3.2.1. Choose the “Post/page slug” to apply the title of the original post/ page automatically.

3.2.2. Choose the “Custom” to enable entering a custom PDF file name.

3.3. Layout

Use the “Layout” option to choose the default layout (Portrait/Landscape) for all generated PDF and print files.

3.3.1. The portrait layout will turn the page vertically.

3.3.2. The landscape layout will turn the page horizontally.

3.4. Default PDF Page Size

Use the “Default PDF Page Size” option to set the default size for the PDF document.

3.4.1. Click the “Apply to all” button to overwrite the existing size values for all post types.

Note: The “A4” size is set by default.

3.4.2. The “A8” format, for example, will display the PDF page as follows.

3.5. Margins

Use the “Margins” option to set the margins of the PDF page.

3.5.1. The “Top”, “Bottom”, “Left” and “Right” margins help to align the content position in the generated PDF file.

3.6. Print Shortcodes

Enable the “Print Shortcodes” option to print shortcodes data generated by other plugins.

3.6.1. When this option is enabled the data added by means of another plugin’s shortcode will be displayed at the PDF file as follows.

3.6.2. Data added by means of another plugin’s shortcode will be displayed at the Print file as follows.

3.7. Remove Links

Enable the “Remove Links” option to remove links from PDF and Print documents.

3.8. Link Annotations

Enable the “Link Annotations” option to remove hover link styles in PDF documents.

Note: This option is available if the “Remove Links” option is disabled.

3.8.1. As a result, links will look at PDF as follows.

3.9. Additional Elements

Enable the “Additional Elements” option to add custom elements along with the generated content inside the PDF document.

3.9.1. Enable the “Title” option to add the title above the content of a post/page into the PDF document.

3.9.2. Enable the “Featured image” option to add a featured image of a post/page into the PDF document.

3.9.3. Featured image may look on the PDF file as follows.

3.9.4. Enable the “Author” option to add the author's name of a post into the PDF document.

3.9.5. The Author's name may look on the PDF file as follows.

3.9.6. Enable the “Date” option to add the publish date of a post into the PDF document.

3.9.7. The publish date may look on the PDF file as follows.

3.9.8. Use “Additional elements” on every single post or page to control the display of elements in PDF view.

3.10. Featured Image Size

Use the “Featured Image Size” option to set the size of the featured image.

3.10.1. For example thumbnail image size may look in a PDF file as follows.

3.11. “Written by” Text

Use the “Written by Text” option to add "Written by" text before an author's name.

3.11.1. The Author's name may look on the PDF file as follows.

3.12. WooCommerce Product Details

Use the “WooCommerce Product Details” to enable the required product data to include it into the PDF document printed on the WooCommerce product page.

Note: Download, activate and install WooCommerce to use the available option.

3.12.1. After saving changes the chosen parameters will be displayed on the PDF-page.

3.13. Watermark Protection

Use the “Watermark Protection” option to protect your PDF document with any watermark.

3.13.1. Choose “None” if you don’t want to use watermark protection at all.

3.13.2. Choose “Text” to enter the text, which will cover the content of the PDF page across.

3.13.3. After saving changes the PDF page with watermark may look as follows.

3.13.4. Choose “Image” to upload the preferred image, which will cover the content of the PDF page.

3.13.5. After saving changes the PDF document may look as follows.

Note: Use the following image properties: [max size: 1 MB; allowed types: JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF].

3.14. Watermark Opacity

Use the “Watermark Opacity” option to change the opacity of the applied image.

3.14.1. After saving changes, the watermark with opacity set to [1] in the PDF document may look as follows.

3.15. Prevent Copying

Enable the “Prevent Copying” option to prevent unauthorized copying of your PDF page.

3.16. Advanced Custom Fields

Enable the “Advanced Custom Fields” options to include available custom fields and their names into the PDF document. Enable the first option to display all Advanced Custom Fields. Do NOT enable this option if ACF are inserted via shortcode. Enable the second option to show the fields name. Use this option if the Advanced Custom Fields are not inserted via shortcode. This way, the fields will be visible at the end of PDF & Print document.

Note: Download, activate and install “Advanced Custom Fields” plugin to use its options.

3.16.1. After saving changes the necessary custom fields will be displayed in the PDF document.

3.17. Additional Fonts

Additional Fonts option is not available in mPDF library above the 7.x version. If you want to load additional fonts please contact us via Help Center.

3.17.1. After the fonts are downloaded, the PDF page’s font may look as follows.

3.18. Default CSS

Enable “Default CSS” option to apply CSS from the current theme.

3.18.1. After saving changes, the PDF document may look as follows.

3.19. Custom CSS

Use the “Custom CSS” option to add custom CSS code to documents.

3.20. Classes/Ids/Elements to Hide

Use this field to specify elements that should be hidden in the PDF or print version. Enter only one value per row, using . for classes or # for IDs, for example: .test, #test, .only, or footer

4. Display Settings

Use the “Display” tab to choose separate post types or single pages where PDF & Print buttons will be displayed. Enable required pages and post types you suppose to have the PDF & Print buttons.

4.1. Enable the “Show URL” option in the “Display Settings” tab to show the URL of each post and page in the list below.

Note: The categories can be configured independently.

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