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[Fernando Gabrieli]

Nestor,  you could use html2pdf which will let you create all the code in
HTML and then export it as a PDF, a line break is just adding a <br>

or dompdf as someone suggested before, but i think that the 2nd has no more
support (i read so in the forums at sf.net some months ago)


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Néstor <rotsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all for your answers.
>
> I have been searching the internet and it seems that it is very hard to
> create reports.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Nestor :-)
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
>
>>  Néstor wrote:
>>
>> But with PDF can you control page breaks? Page headings?
>>
>>
>> Yes and Yes.
>>
>>
>> Is there a default number of lines per page?
>>
>>
>> Determined by font size, line height and page size.
>>
>> When printing a cell in a table is there a way to tell how many lines
>> printing a cell will take
>> because a cell can be 1 line or many.
>>
>>
>> This is a bitch.  FPDF can do this, but it becomes damn near impossible if
>> you have more than one such entry in a row.  I put a lot of effort into it
>> and finally decided it only works if there is one multi-line value and it is
>> at the *end* of the line.
>>
>>
>> I have create a report but the managers do not want part of a table record
>> in one page
>> and part on another page
>>
>>
>> Also tough.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nestor :-)
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Néstor wrote:
>>>
>>> When creating a report how do you guys handle line breaks?
>>> When printing a  table text table cell how do you do so that part of
>>> text is not on one page and part on another?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you tried fpdf (fpdf.org) to make things in PDF format?
>>>
>>> I tried making HTML reports a few years ago and concluded the support is
>>> simply not there to make it worthwhile, and went PDF instead.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nestor:-)
>>>
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