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Make it easy for people to print activities  
Written by David C the 12 Jun 09 at 15:39. Global category: Publishing Plings Data. In development
People may want to print all sorts of activity data, from one off activities to make a flier, to a list of everything that's on at a certain place/venue, to the whole of an organisations summer activities.

The data's there, so this is a task of selecting, formatting and sending to an appropriate print service/printer!

The API can probably narrow the selections, but then a user may want to custom select from that subset.

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Selected solution (#1): The Plings Print Selecta!
Written by David C the 12 Jun 09 at 15:39.
UPDATE DavidC dhodgson is working on the 'Plings Selecta' - which partly addresses this solution and others below. There is still work to be done tho. See: http://selecta.elasticeye.org.uk

Original Post
Could be a stand alone app, or a 'plugin'

Provide a list of plings to select from (may be using check boxes)

Perhaps have options to group, order

Provide theme options

Produce a print preview

Possibly look at integration with print service API's such as moo.com

Could be better I suspect!
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Selected solution (#2): Working with the Tabbloid.com API
Written by stevieflow the 16 Jun 09 at 12:04.
One solution to implement would be creating some examples and templates via the Tabbloid API. This could take some data from a Plings feed and format it for use and printing.

The trick would be to then look at how this can be accessed by all
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Selected solution (#4): Apache Cocoon
Written by David C the 4 Aug 09 at 15:36.
It's been suggested to me that:
http://cocoon.apache.org/

might be the solution to the data to paper part of this.

As I understand it Apache Cocoon uses Apache FOP as a module to print to PDF. Coccon itself is a web interface that can manipulate data sent to it (in various formats), and output it various formats.

Anyone had any experience with it?

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Selected solution (#5): Printing from iCal Feeds
Written by timd the 10 Aug 09 at 14:56.
Given we're looking to print date-based information in most cases - we may find it useful to look for code geared up to formatting iCal feeds and then using that...

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