pdf exports : how to align content in cells ?

Friday 21 July 2006 8:48:42 am

Hi,

we have a problem when exporting content in pdf. When we have a table in a template, we can't center or align on the right the content of the table cells in the pdf export. Has any of you found a solution ?

Thanks for your help !

Francis.

Tuesday 25 July 2006 3:26:49 am

Unfortunately Kåre, alignment doesn't work using the following codes :

<tr>
<td align="center">{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ) )}</td>
<td justification="center">{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ) )}</td>
<td justification="center">{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ),hash('align', 'center' ) )}</td>
</tr>
{pdf(table, $tableau, hash('showLines',2,
'firstRowTitle',1,
'titleCellCMYK',array( 0, 0, 0 ),
'titleTextCMYK',array(0.9,0.3,0,0.2),
'titleFontSize',8,
'cellCMYK',array( 0, 0, 0 ),
'textCMYK',array( 255, 255, 255 ),
'rowGap',4,
'colGap',4,
'cellPadding',0,
'width',435,
'repeatTableHeader',0) )}

We also tried the "cellData" option which is used in "lib/ezpdf/classes/class.ezpdftable.php" but the aligment doesn't change either:

{pdf(table, $tableau, hash('cellData',array('0,0',array('justification',right)),
'showLines',2,
'firstRowTitle',1,
'titleCellCMYK',array( 0, 0, 0 ),
'titleTextCMYK',array(0.9,0.3,0,0.2),
'titleFontSize',8,
'cellCMYK',array( 0, 0, 0 ),
'textCMYK',array( 255, 255, 255 ),
'rowGap',4,
'colGap',4,
'cellPadding',0,
'width',435,
'repeatTableHeader',0) )}

we're stuck with this !

Tuesday 25 July 2006 5:48:35 am

Hello Kåre,

The content of the table cells are still not aligned on the right with this code.
For me, the best solution would be to put the attribute "justification" or "align" in the template for certain cells but that does not function.

These various codes does not align the text :

<tr>
<td align="center">{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ) )}</td>
<td justification="center">{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ) )}</td>
<td justification="center">{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ),hash('align', 'center' ) )}</td>
</tr>

Do you have an idea?

Thanks.

Vanessa

Friday 22 December 2006 4:55:00 am

Hi Kåre,

Passing in cellData (or cols for that matter) isn't going to work, because the array gets serialised into a string with value "Array" before it gets passed to any of the underlying PDF generation code. Having delved around inside the code for a bit (and got royally confused :), I've added a patch to http://issues.ez.no/IssueView.php?Id=8724 to allow alignment to be set within the set-block variable.

However, you need to use a syntax like:

<tr>
<td:align:left:>{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ) )}</td>
<td:align:center:>{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ) )}</td>
<td:align:right:>{pdf( 'text', $text|wash( 'pdf' ) )}</td>
</tr>

There does seem to be some cruftiness in the PDF code - are there any plans to review the PDF stuff and bring it back to speed?

Regards
Vittal

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