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This is a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing.

I have "successfully" added a "Print PDF Letter for Contact" action for the Find Members results form (I would like to use Find Members as opposed to Contact Search since I would like to have access to the "Renew Membership" link that is part of the Member Search form).  Selecting the Print PDF action takes you to the PDF composition page - all the message templates show up as well as all of the tokens.  The "Number of Selected Contacts" value is also correct.  When I submit using the "Make PDF Letter" button, however, I get a single blank PDF.  This process all works correctly if I print PDF's through the Contact Search results page.

My debugging skills are limited - I have not been successful in determining if the passed variables to the HTML2PDF function are correct.  

I feel like I am close to getting this to work - any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your post Eileen - I recently figured out what I was missing.

I used the PDF.php and PHPLetterCommon.pdf files from CRM/Search/Form/Task as templates.  Given that these files were now in CRM/Member/Form/Task, I was missing the relevant ContactID's.  This was corrected by adding

parent::setContactIDs( )

in the preProcess( ) function in PDF.php.  I discovered this after looking closely at Email.php in Member tasks.

Everything now works fine.  I'll be glad, however, when the ability to add actions via hooks beyond contact searches is added in future releases.