Create and theme amazing PDFs using Drupal 8
summary
Shows how to generate repeatable PDFs from Drupal 8 using Entity Print with engines like DomPDF (also mPDF, wkhtmltopdf), how node templates map to PDF layout, and how to add a custom CSS library scoped to print. Covers practical limits—set character/image size rules, inject a pagination variable, handle PNG/SVG quirks—and describes large-scale deployments (thousands of product specs, catalogs and books) and when to choose HTML‑mimicking versus PHP renderers.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25What is PDF
- 1:13How PDFs come into picture
- 1:50Edit Editorial Workflow
- 2:16How to get started
- 3:10Example
- 3:43PDF layout
- 6:15Backend
- 6:40Limitations
- 7:10NG Different
- 7:45Configuration
- 9:54View PDF
- 10:18Summary
- 10:59NGT Print
- 11:43Custom CSS Library
- 12:47Overwrite CSS Library
- 13:36Define Library
- 13:52Recap
- 14:14Considerations
- 15:45Solutions
- 17:41Questions
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