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[nycphp-talk] Report with line breaks

Néstor rotsen at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 11:02:46 EST 2008


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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