[geeklog-devel] PDF support, was [Fwd: further span in comments & problem with security listserv signup]

[Vincent Furia]

I just started looking at the code, haven't actually done a successful
test yet (this is probably my fault).  Like Tony though, I won't have
significant time until this weekend.  I'll let everyone know if I make
any progress (on this or adding to the SpamX plugin, I'll make PDF a
priority though).

-Vinny

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:58:56 -0500, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
> Dirk Haun wrote:
> 
> > To be a bit more precise:
> >
> >- generated PDFs not being deleted
> >
> >
> Should be easy enough to fix.  Main problem, though, is the currently
> implementation gives a timestamp as the name of the PDF.  Sounds fine
> but if the same one is clicked over and over we regenerate copies of the
> PDF.  This was donated code so I'll have to monkey with it.  My
> inclination is to use the SID and append the timestamp to the end of the
> file.  That would give something like
> <some_story_id>_<some_timestamp>.pdf.  The codecan then easily modify
> the timestamp portion on subsequent views so that the purge process works.
> 
> >- uses XHTML, even though htmldoc doesn't understand it
> >- as a consequence of the above: Do we need the Tidy support then?
> >
> >
> No.  Not sure WTF I was thinking.
> 
> >And, most importantly, it doesn't work - at least not for me:
> >
> >
> Lol, works for me ;-).  More testing will be needed after the above
> changes are needed.
> 
> Vinny, what's your plate looking like?  I'm tied up tonight, might have
> time tomorrow and won't have time after that until Saturday morning.
> 
> --Tony
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