We are constantly expanding the documentation with images and examples to help you get exactly what you need out of PDF Ink. That said — just because the docs are “big” and there are code examples, doesn’t mean it is difficult or complex! Don’t let that intimidate you.
If you are not a coder, that’s okay. PDF Ink works out-of-the-box for most WordPress users, with a clear backend Settings interface, lots of easy choices to make, and intuitive navigation to where you need to be.
Curious how it works? In a nutshell, PDF Ink listens for a click of a download link. It then checks if the file is a PDF or EPUB (or a PDF/EPUB contained in a ZIP archive), checks if the site administrator has turned on watermarking for that file, and then gets to work. The PDF library set you have chosen parses the PDF contents into PHP memory in order to manipulate them, leaving the original file untouched. The altered PDF is then spit out into a temporary (or not temporary, your choice) file which can be delivered to the customer. Learn more about how PDF Ink works specifically with WordPress ecommerce. If you are not using ecommerce per-se and would like to still add the click functionality to your PDF download links, or create special links, PDF Ink does that, too.
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