New PDF extension

[iguerra]

A PDF extension should be available as a basic feature of thingworx

in particular it should be possible to save a Mashup as a PDF in a local repository.

This could be useful to download data/reports from mashup or send scheduled email with reports attached.

The old PDF extension is not available any more, and it was not compatible with latest TWX versions. Moreover in some cases it was tricky and slow to run  ... and also it creates a raster PDF instead of vectorial ... because it makes a "screenshot" of the mashup at server side and encapsulate it on a PDF.

May be a print-to-pdf ran at server side could be faster and also generate a vectorial PDF ?

[iguerra]

Will there be a way to generate a document, even if not a PDF, at server side ? 

It is a feature requested by lot of people, we also would use it for automatic report generation.

[cbaldwin]

Hello @iguerra , no server side document generation planned at present.

[George_B]

Can you tell me how to add the ability to print the current mashup. I know Control P works but would like to be able to Print a popup mashup. 

[iguerra]

We used an old PrintButton extension and customized it to work better and also with collection widget (multiple pages print)

You can find that the original extension here in the community, note that it is an old estension so I don't know how it works with recent thingworx version

https://community.ptc.com/t5/ThingWorx-Developers/Print-Button-Attached-Extension-file/td-p/648539

with that extension you can specify the mashup element to print, so it may work with also a popup