Chris Hardie

Hi @lukashuggenberg – could you have your developer test out the results of file_get_contents() and maybe curl to retrieve the image URL from the same server environment where your site is running, to see if that works?

The library my plugin is using, tcpdf, uses these kinds of calls to fetch the image and determine its size; if they cannot successfully retrieve it in your hosting environment, then it’s unlikely that the plugin will support featured image display in the generated PDF.

Hi @lukashuggenberg – thanks for trying out the plugin, sorry you ran into an error.

This usually happens because a host prevents access to the post featured image URLs from within the plugin. Would you be willing to share which host you’re using? Is there anything special about your setup in terms of custom post types, images served from a non-standard location, or similar? What version of WordPress and what version of the plugin you are using?

Also, does the PDF generation work when you don’t included featured images?

Thanks for any additional information you can provide.

Closing this for now since there was no additional information available.

Thanks @jawad27 – I’m glad you’re liking the plugin.

For RTL support, it looks like I need to add a change that detects whether the currently configured WordPress locale uses RTL and then have the PDF generation process respect that. I’ve opened a GitHub issue at https://github.com/ChrisHardie/printable-pdf-newspaper/issues/42 so I can work on that; feel free to subscribe to it for further updates.

In terms of adding additional fonts, there is a filter you can use in your theme or in a custom plugin to enable support for additional fonts, “ppn_font_file_paths”. Please check the FAQ at https://wordpress.org/plugins/printable-pdf-newspaper/#faq-header for notes about this. The filter should return an array that replaces the default list of fonts that will be loaded:

$fonts_to_include = array(
 	plugin_dir_path( __DIR__ ) . 'assets/fonts/ttf/robotoregular.ttf',
 	plugin_dir_path( __DIR__ ) . 'assets/fonts/ttf/RobotoBold.ttf',
 	plugin_dir_path( __DIR__ ) . 'assets/fonts/ttf/RobotoRegularItalic.ttf',
 	plugin_dir_path( __DIR__ ) . 'assets/fonts/ttf/lorabold.ttf',
 );

So, if you have a font at wp-content/myfonts/myfont.ttf then you might have the filter work like so:

function my_fonts() { 
 	return array(
 	 	WP_CONTENT_DIR . 'myfonts/myfont.ttf',
 	);
}
add_filter( 'ppn_font_file_paths', 'my_fonts', 10, 1 );

I haven’t tested that code directly yet, please adapt to your needs. Note that you need to return a list of all the fonts you want to support, not just the custom ones.

I hope that helps. If you have any questions or if you need anything else, just let me know.

Thanks @kumajo! I’m so glad you are enjoying the plugin.

Hi @screamingfingers. I’m not quite sure what else I can offer here. As noted earlier, it is expected that the animation will show a decreasing amount when the difference between the most recent two data points on debt show a decrease. That’s exactly the case with the data available for October 21 ($28,842,489,318,660.40) and October 22 ($28,828,878,392,199.23), so it’s expected that the amount would show as decreasing because that reflects that debt trend.

My best suggestion is to disable the animation if you don’t like that the number is shown as decreasing, or to look for another plugin that will better meet your needs.

Hi @screamingfingers, thank you for your interest in this plugin!

The direction the clock travels is based on whether the publicized debt amount is currently in an increasing trend or a decreasing trend. This is detected by looking at the difference between the last two “Total Public Debt Outstanding” debt amounts at https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny. If you’d prefer, you can turn of the counting animation altogether in the plugin’s widget settings.

If you’re seeing some other behavior here, it would be great to have details: example amounts being displayed, timestamps, etc. so that I can look into it further.

Every place I’ve tested the plugin including at the URL you provided is showing a debt amount close to $28 trillion. Glad that refreshing the page worked out for you.

If you have any questions or if you need anything else, just let me know.