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Kilandor
#17778 2009-10-14 06:18
Because a Print option when creating a page is a silly waste of SQL, same for PDF. Also PDF generation requires a PHP extenstion, and or a library to create it (which hosts may or may not have) (or someone to sit and research how PDF's are created and make our own method to do this).

If those options are a real must, you can add them with extra fields. And a simple TPL if check for the print or PDF could show the appropriate links, and PDF generation could be done by a plugin.

This is what extra fields and plugins are for, I doubt most people have the need to have options to put print links or PDF generation links on some pages but not others. If you want a print link or PDF generation, it would seem logical you would just want it on all pages. Which either could just be placed in a TPL.