Title: PDF Creator Lite Author: Alex Furr Published: June 30, 2014 Last modified: September 18, 2015 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/pdf-creator-lite/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=941148) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/pdf-creator-lite/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=978787) # PDF Creator Lite By [Alex Furr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexfurr/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pdf-creator-lite.1.2.zip) * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-creator-lite/#description) * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-creator-lite/#reviews) * [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-creator-lite/#installation) * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-creator-lite/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/) ## Description PDF Creator Lite makes on-the-fly PDF documents of selected parts of your site. It has 2 main uses: **Use it on pages and posts so your readers can download PDFs:** _Basic Use:_ Just put the `[pdf-lite]` shortcode into your page or post and visitors can simply click a button to get a PDF document of that page. _More Control:_ Use the shortcode parameters to choose specific pages, categories, or the entire site. Here’s a few examples: Makes a PDF of all posts: [pdf-lite allposts=”true”] Makes a PDF of all pages: [pdf-lite allpages=”true”] Makes a PDF of selected pages/posts (use post ids or slugs): [pdf-lite page=”3, 28, my-post-slug”] Makes a PDF of posts in the categories ‘music’ and ‘food’: [pdf-lite cat=”music, food”] Changes the download icon: [pdf-lite icon=”3″] See the full list of parameters on the settings page ( Dashboard->Tools->PDF Creator). **Use it as an admin tool to create customised PDFs of selected or all site pages( not posts):** * Customise the colours and fonts * Simple and easy to use Go to the settings page ( Dashboard->Tools->PDF Creator ) to make your PDF. This plugin is supported by the [University of Southampton](http://cite.soton.ac.uk/) ## Screenshots * [[ * Format options * [[ * Select which pages you want to convert ## Installation 1. Extract the zip file and copy contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation 2. Activate the Plugin from Plugins page. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/99559b7beee1a7a72608c297edbae62ae01483ed76f8ec2c5a746c4d47bf8afb? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works greate!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-greate-1/)󠁿 [f0u](https://profiles.wordpress.org/f0u/) September 3, 2016 Missing some future to customize some more of the output and also be able to translate the popup box. Using it for exporting formidable pro views ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/63435efed1df720a51721603a5bfaf78ff923372bae77229d0fc5323ec6e4cb8? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[PDF Creator Lite – Too Buggy!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pdf-creator-lite-too-buggy/)󠁿 [wp00plpl](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wp00plpl/) September 3, 2016 1 reply Way to buggy to present to your users. Don’t waste your time. Preview feature is broken: it continues to display and download previous pdfs in a backgroud color which was long since deleted, links at bottom of that Preview display are broken as well. No [Save Changes] button on the pages where you specify your preferences. Your selections never take effect. [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “PDF Creator Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Alex Furr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexfurr/) * [ simon.ward ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/simonward-1/) [Translate “PDF Creator Lite” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pdf-creator-lite) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pdf-creator-lite/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/pdf-creator-lite/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pdf-creator-lite/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pdf-creator-lite/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.2 * Added – Style options for shortcodes, the parameters are `font`, `fontcolor`,` linkcolor`, and `bgcolor`. `font` can be ‘times’, ‘helvetica’, or ‘courier’, and the colour options should be specified as hex values. #### 1.1 * Fixed – A PDF Creation issue under certain conditions (this only affected users trying to make pdfs of quiz questions generated by Quiz-Tool-Lite). #### 1.0 * Added – Frontend PDF downloads for site visitors, via the shortcode [pdf-lite]. The shortcode accepts various params to control the content in the pdf, see the settings page for a full list of options. #### 0.1 * Initial Release ## Meta * Version **1.2** * Last updated **11 years ago** * Active installations **40+** * WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.3.34** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-creator-lite/) * Tags * [academic](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/academic/)[pdf](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pdf/) * [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-creator-lite/advanced/) ## Ratings 3.5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 2 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 1 1-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pdf-creator-lite/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Alex Furr ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexfurr/) * [ simon.ward ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/simonward-1/) ## Support Got something to say? 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