So I am trying to convert a certain type of page view into PDF (and also CSV's but thats another hurdle). The tricky part is that I am using Joomla 3.0 so the ever popular PhocaPDF extension will not work.
So far I have tried using http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_PDF_views, but it ends up throwing errors when referring to JRENDER().
Also I have tried using this extension http://rootprogress.com/index.php/downloads/root-pdf-content
Which I can get to work but only for the article view. I can tell that this plug-in gets its code using DOMPDF and also grabs the $article from JOOMLA! so I have no idea where it is grabbing the $article variable from (so I can reassign it to my new view).
Has anyone had any success with implementing a PDF generator in Joomla 3.0?
The PDF functionality that used to be there in V1.5 was removed in V1.6, see Changes from 1.5 to 1.6. I don't think anybody put it back in for later versions. You can use a third party component if you really need it.
Joomla 3.3 has the option to print articles, you have just to enable it.
Then if you're browsing with Google Chrome you can easily print the page as PDF.