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Often with a site like this one, where people come to get Drupal help and tutorials, visitors would like to view an article either in a printer friendly format or download it as a PDF. Also at times they may want to email an article to a friend or college who would be interested in reading it. Once again Drupal comes through with a great contributed module to allow us to do this. It is called the Printer, e-mail, and PDF versions module.

To use this module you simply download and install it (if you don’t know how check out our how to install a drupal module tutorial). Once you’ve installed the module you can enable any of the three features you want: PDF version, Printer-Friendly pages, and Send by email. You will also want to navigate to the Site Configuration –> Printer, Email, and PDF versions menus. Here you can do things like set where you want the links to appear and if you want images or text showing, etc.

Note: Don’t forget to enable anonymous users to see the print, email, and PDF links through the Permissions configuration section if you want everyone to have this functionality.

So far I have just been using the printer friendly version and Send an email to a friend features. I haven’t downloaded and set up the stuff to create PDF files. All and all a very useful feature that is very easy to set up. Its situations like this where you begin to see the true power of a content management system like Drupal!