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dompdf fails and wkhtmltodpf is inadequate.
September 21, 2013, 06:19:48 pm
I'm running into serious problems with the pdf option in civiReports.

The default tool (dompdf) fails for longer reports -- in our case a 5 page list of all members.  This problem has been documented in other forum postings.  Dompdf appears to become a massive resource hog for anything beyond the shortest and simplest of pages.

I followed the instructions for the recommended replacement (wkhtmltopdf) but it does a terrible job with page breaks, often rendering half a line one one page and the other half on the other -- simply unacceptable in terms of usability.

Am I missing something?   Have others managed to get wkhtmltopdf to render page breaks correctly?  Is there a third option supported within CiviCRM? 

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Re: dompdf fails and wkhtmltodpf is inadequate.
September 21, 2013, 07:13:49 pm

sorry no third option :(

Would be great if you can investigate wkhtmltopdf and see if we can do things a bit differently to improve the integration between civicrm and wkhtmltopdf

thanx

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Re: dompdf fails and wkhtmltodpf is inadequate.
September 23, 2013, 11:16:17 am
Have you tried this for wkhtmltopdf page breaks?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8786755/wkhtmltopdf-characters-in-single-line-partially-cut-between-pages

Sounds like display:block may fix it.

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Re: dompdf fails and wkhtmltodpf is inadequate.
September 23, 2013, 12:41:51 pm

let us know if someone experiments with this and it fixes it. Would be good to contribute a PR to add this to the html of pdf generated pages

the code for this is here:

CRM/Utils/PDF/Utils.php (search for // Glue the pages together)

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