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[Kenneth Downs]

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 
> <mailto: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 <http://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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