Create a Column Break on PDF

  • Resolved Andreia Peixoto

    (@andreialuka)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hello.
    I’m using forms with the Gravity pdf plugin to send by email the final answers of the form in a pdf.

    I read most of your documentation on formatting the final pdf file, but I’m having an issue I hope you can help me with.

    Since the answers to my form are so small and I MUST reduce the final number of pages, I though it would be great if the info was “printed” on 2 columns per page by doing some sort of a column break. I played around with CSS but I can’t get it to work.

    Is it possible to do it?

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  • Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    Hi,

    You’ll need to create a custom PDF template to achieve what you want.

    I recommend taking a look at mPDF’s column HTML tags. You can read more about it in their documentation.

    Thread Starter Andreia Peixoto

    (@andreialuka)

    Hi Jake. I’ve done it already and been playing around with CSS but I can’t get it to work. Want me to show you what I’ve got?

    Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    Sure. Post a Gist of your template and I’ll take a look when able.

    Thread Starter Andreia Peixoto

    (@andreialuka)

    Forget it Jake, you’re a LIFESAVER ??

    I was using something like this “$mPDF->SetColumns(nCols[, vAlign [, gap ]]);” and for some reason it wasn’t working.

    I tested this one “<columns column-count=”n” vAlign=”justify” column-gap=”n” />” suggested on the link you mentioned and IT WORKED ??

    Amazing, thank you so much. Really. ??

    Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    Glad to be of help.

    For the record, Gravity PDF templates are sandboxes in mPDF’s WriteHTML() method. This means you don’t have access to any of the PHP methods like $mpdf->SetColumns(), but have full access to any of the helper HTML like <columns>.

    Thread Starter Andreia Peixoto

    (@andreialuka)

    Noted ??

    Hello, I am having a similar issue and the links you provided for mPDF are no longer active ??

    I got pretty close with my custom template, but running into some issues.
    I would like the form data to be outputted to a 1 page pdf that is landscape (A4-L) and in 3 columns. I need the overflow from column 1 to be pushed into column two then. Right now it starts a new page and doesn’t utilize columns 2 and 3.

    Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

    Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    The manual is still there, just the URL structure has changed. See https://mpdf.github.io/reference/html-control-tags/columns.html

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