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Force a PDF page break [message #1682]

Mon, 22 September 2008 06:00

gpatti
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Tony,

In the documentation you provide an example, using _cm_ListView_pre_print() to produce line breaks. Is it possible to do something similar to produce a page break?

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Re: Force a PDF page break [message #1685 is a reply to message #1682]

Mon, 22 September 2008 08:51

AJM
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I'm afraid not.

Tony Marston
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Re: Force a PDF page break [message #1687 is a reply to message #1685]

Mon, 22 September 2008 09:23

AJM
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You could try calling $this->Header() within your code at the appropriate place.

Tony Marston
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Re: Force a PDF page break [message #1688 is a reply to message #1682]

Mon, 22 September 2008 09:27

gpatti
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I'll give it a try and let you know how I get on.

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Re: Force a PDF page break [message #1689 is a reply to message #1688]

Mon, 22 September 2008 10:02

AJM
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I've just tried forcing a page break in my test system and discovered the following:

(1) The code you actually need in your table object is:

$this->pdf->AddPage();

(2) In order to populate $this->pdf you will need to update the outputPDF_ListView() method in std.table.class.inc as follows:

$pdf = new PDF_list($structure); <== existing line
$this->pdf =& $pdf;              <== add this line

I will put this change in the next release.

Tony Marston
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http://www.radicore.org

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Re: Force a PDF page break [message #1690 is a reply to message #1682]

Mon, 22 September 2008 10:48

gpatti
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Thanks Tony,

That works exactly as I needed.

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Re: Force a PDF page break [message #1691 is a reply to message #1682]

Mon, 22 September 2008 11:58

gpatti
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Actually Tony - I realise I have fallen foul of a small problem:

I only want to force page breaks in one particular report. Now that I have put code in the table class to form page breaks on change of a value, all my reports based on that table class now perform the page breaks.

How can I access the name of the output task from within _cm_ListView_pre_print to be able to handle this?

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