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The ‘Make PDF Newspaper’ plugin replaces the <a href="http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/wordpress-plugins/make-tabbloid-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Make Tabbloid</a> to automatically create printer friendly ‘tabloid’ editions of your WordPress blog in an attractive 2 column magazine/newspaper format. Development of the original plugin stopped after HP removed API access to their service. The new plugin uses code developed for the <a href="http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/" rel="nofollow ugc">Five Filters PDF Newspaper project</a>, which in itself pulls together code from a number of other open source projects including <a href="http://www.tcpdf.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">TCPDF</a>, <a href="http://htmlpurifier.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">HTML Purifier</a>, <a href="http://simplepie.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">SimplePie</a> and <a href="http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/" rel="nofollow ugc">SmartyPants</a>
The plugin includes a widget to let you control how you advertise your ‘tabloid edition’. You can also choose to display a thumbnail of your custom newsletter (powered by <a href="http://webthumb.bluga.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bluga.net Webthumb</a>) to let your readers see what they are missing.
Key features
<ul>
<li>Option to generate PDF from externally hosted versions of the Five Filters code</li>
<li>Option to generate PDF editions of selected categories or archives</li>
<li>PDF generation entirely self-hosted removing reliance on 3rd party services and making it suitable for Intranet installations of WordPress</li>
<li>Option to include QR codes for each post (and custom text for user intructions)</li>
<li>Customisable banner text and logo</li>
<li>Option to automatically footnote all the links which appear in a post (using tinyurl or bitly to shorten long links)</li>
<li>Integrated widget to display thumbnail of your publication</li>
<li>User controlled production of PDF (including secure urls to trigger pdf generation via cron services. See FAQ for more information) </li>
</ul>
See the ‘screenshot’ for a summary of the features.
For an example of its usage visit <a href="http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/</a>
Thanks to
This plugin is made possible by the hard work of <a href="http://www.keyvan.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Keyvan Minoukadeh</a> creator of <a href="http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/" rel="nofollow ugc">Five Filters PDF Newspaper</a> and Jonathan Lyon who nudged me on.

Make PDF Newspaper

'Make PDF Newspaper' uses Five Filters PDF Newspaper to create printer friendly 'tabloid' edition of your Wordpress blog.

THE END HP recently removed 3rd party access to their Tabbloid service which breaks this plugin. An entirely open source alternative which can be self-hosted, called ‘Make PDF Newspaper’ has been developed and can be <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/make-pdf-newspaper/" rel="ugc">downloaded here</a>.
The ‘Make Tabbloid’ plugin integrates with HP’s <a href="http://www.tabbloid.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Tabbloid Service</a> to automatically create printer friendly ‘tabloid’ editions of your WordPress blog in an attractive magazine/newspaper format.
The plugin includes a widget to let you control how you advertise your ‘tabloid edition’. You can also choose to display a thumbnail of your custom newsletter (powered by <a href="http://view.samurajdata.se/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://view.samurajdata.se/</a>) to let your readers see what they are missing.
Key features
<ul>
<li>NEW! – Option to include QR codes for each post</li>
<li>Customisable banner text (default is Today’s Tabbloid)</li>
<li>Option to automatically footnote all the links which appear in a post (using tinyurl to shorten long links)</li>
<li>Integrated widget to display thumbnail of your publication (or function code to include in your template)</li>
<li>Option to aggregate more than one RSS feed within your publication</li>
<li>New editions automatically generated when new posts are added</li>
</ul>
See the ‘screenshot’ for a summary of the features.
For an example of its usage visit <a href="http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/</a>
<h3>Upgrade Notices</h3>
This plugin in now obsolete and users should updrade to <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/make-pdf-newspaper/" rel="ugc">Make PDF Newspaper</a>

Make Tabbloid

'Make Tabbloid' integrates with the www.tabbloid.com service to create printer friendly 'tabloid' edition of your Wordpress blog.

Make PDF Newspaper vs Make Tabbloid