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Pesti Pal	Monday 07 January 2008 4:37:02 am Hello all, So my question is: Why is the pdf module declared deprecate in eZ Publish 4.0? (what is it that doesn't work more precisely) Does this affect the PDF template functions too, or those can be used as normal? Thanks a lot.
Heath	Monday 07 January 2008 4:59:52 am This module (among several others) has been deprecated with the move to eZ Publish 4.0 It was created in a different time to fill a different need. Today it would require significant development by a competent eZ Certified Developer to continue to support it's serving this limited purpose. You may not want to understand or listen but ... This code is not worth saving in its current form. This solution (pdf module) should be re-designed and created to better serve the general user base of eZ Publish. Contribute funding to the related open funding project [1] or create your own eZ Component. [1] http://ez.no/developer/open_funding/open_funding_projects/pdf_templating_export Cheers, Heath Brookins Consulting \| http://brookinsconsulting.com/ Certified \| http://auth.ez.no/certification/verify/380350 Solutions \| http://projects.ez.no/users/community/brookins_consulting eZpedia community documentation project \| http://ezpedia.org
André R.	Monday 07 January 2008 7:16:00 am In other words: the current pdf functionality is deprecate because it doesn't support utf8 properly, caused by the underlying php functions it's using. The replacement is the one Heat links to. eZ Online Editor 5: http://projects.ez.no/ezoe \|\| eZJSCore (Ajax): http://projects.ez.no/ezjscore \|\| eZ Publish EE http://ez.no/eZPublish/eZ-Publish-Enterprise-Subscription @: http://twitter.com/andrerom

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Pesti Pal

Monday 07 January 2008 4:37:02 am

Hello all,

So my question is:

Why is the pdf module declared deprecate in eZ Publish 4.0? (what is it that doesn't work more precisely)

Does this affect the PDF template functions too, or those can be used as normal?

Thanks a lot.

Heath

Monday 07 January 2008 4:59:52 am

This module (among several others) has been deprecated with the move to eZ Publish 4.0

It was created in a different time to fill a different need.

Today it would require significant development by a competent eZ Certified Developer to continue to support it's serving this limited purpose.

You may not want to understand or listen but ... This code is not worth saving in its current form.

This solution (pdf module) should be re-designed and created to better serve the general user base of eZ Publish.

Contribute funding to the related open funding project [1] or create your own eZ Component.

[1] http://ez.no/developer/open_funding/open_funding_projects/pdf_templating_export

Cheers,
Heath

Brookins Consulting | http://brookinsconsulting.com/
Certified | http://auth.ez.no/certification/verify/380350
Solutions | http://projects.ez.no/users/community/brookins_consulting
eZpedia community documentation project | http://ezpedia.org

André R.

Monday 07 January 2008 7:16:00 am

In other words: the current pdf functionality is deprecate because it doesn't support utf8 properly, caused by the underlying php functions it's using.
The replacement is the one Heat links to.

eZ Online Editor 5: http://projects.ez.no/ezoe || eZJSCore (Ajax): http://projects.ez.no/ezjscore || eZ Publish EE http://ez.no/eZPublish/eZ-Publish-Enterprise-Subscription
@: http://twitter.com/andrerom

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:35:02
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:35:02
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:35:02
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:35:03
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:35:03
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.9491 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	59

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0067	587.9141	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0067	0.0034	740.5391	39.4453
Module start 'content'	0.0101	0.9374	779.9844	576.7188
Module end 'content'	0.9475	0.0015	1,356.7031	12.1563
Script end	0.9490		1,368.8594

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0035	0.3652	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.1375	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0015	0.1568	1	0.0015
Mysqli_queries	0.8896	93.7319	59	0.0151
Looping result	0.0006	0.0624	57	0.0000
Template Total	0.9113	96.0	2	0.4556
Template load	0.0025	0.2655	2	0.0013
Template processing	0.9088	95.7531	2	0.4544
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0252	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0026	0.2704	1	0.0026
state_identifier_array	0.0033	0.3452	2	0.0016
Override
Cache load	0.0020	0.2135	23	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0009	0.0955	3	0.0003
Fetch class attribute name	0.0011	0.1199	5	0.0002
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0012	0.1228	3	0.0004
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0012	5	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0009	0.1001	24	0.0000
String conversion	0.0000	0.0007	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
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3	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
2	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 13 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0002 secs