Better PDFs than PdfManager?

I solved this by creating a custom sugarpdf for my custom module which outputs the html with the added link to the specific css I wish to use.

The html is fed to wkhtmltopdf to produce a beautiful output.

The downside of this approach is that the document template has to be edited in HTML if any modifications are needed.

I also added  the css to the tinymce window in custom/include/tinyMCEDefaultConfig.php

so the content would be viewed as much as possible with the correct formatting in editor.

The downside is this applies to all tinymce windows including email compose windows and may not be ideal depending on the css.

For the detail view, I added the css to detailviewdefs.php in the customCode for the body_html field in the PdfManager module conditional to my module:

            'customCode' => '{if $fields.base_module.value == "wcont_WContracts"}<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="custom/contract_resources/css/contract.css" />{/if}{$fields.body_html.value|from_html}',

This is far from ideal but works for current scenarios.

I'm open to better ideas.

thanks,
FrancescaS

How that can be applied to cloud based SugarCRM (online version) ?

Is it possible?

Thanks!

I am not sure what you have access to with the hosted version. I'm not sure it would work for you.

Here is my complete solution:

https://developer.sugarcrm.com/2016/08/15/how-to-create-beautiful-pdfs-with-css-within-sugar/ 

HTH

FrancescaS

On cloud/hosted version I don't have access to PHP files. Thank you for your input anyway.

Best!