[Product-Developers] Announcing collective.ebook

[Malthe Borch]

This is an add-on that lets you present a dynatree [1] to allow a
visitor to select subtrees of content to have formatted as a published
article:

    https://github.com/collective/collective.ebook

Basically it works like a clickable, expandable site map. It's
light-weight because each level is loaded asynchronously.

It currently assumes a software such as PrinceXML [2] that transforms
HTML into PDF.

The add-on comes with integration into `plone.resourceeditor` [3] such
that templates can be edited TTW.

If you've got a license for PrinceXML, this is an easy way to take
your existing Plone content and publish it as PDF, letting the
visitors themselves decide what content to publish and get a very
professional result.

SSH is supported out-of-the-box such that you can use a PrinceXML
executable which is installed on a different machine.

Note that the user interface is currently in Danish (!) – get in touch
if you're interested and need help translating it into English or
another language.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/dynatree/ (configured with asynchronous loading)
[2] http://www.princexml.com/ (not free – actually rather expensive)
[3] https://github.com/plone/plone.resourceeditor (uses the ACE
browser-based source editor)
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Malthe Borch
mborch at gmail.com