#26797

I’m working with a simple table, and I’m coming across some instances where pd4ml refuses to render a cell in the table.

This fails to render:
<br /> <table cellspacing="19"><br /> <tr><br /> <td></td><br /> <td><p>Name</p></td><br /> </tr><br /> </table><br />

But, simply add some newlines, and it’s all better:
<br /> <table cellspacing="19"><br /> <tr><br /> <td></td><br /> <td><br /> <p>Name</p><br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> </table><br />

Or, even stranger, decrease the original table’s cellspacing to 18
<br /> <table cellspacing="18"><br /> <tr><br /> <td></td><br /> <td><p>Name</p></td><br /> </tr><br /> </table><br />

This renders fine. What’s the deal?

Testing Environment:
PD4ML 3.8.0fx9 pro – Java
Windows 7 / Linux 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5
No special Options, just new PD4ML().render

#29159

We reproduced the problem. For the time being there is no good technical explanation why it happens, but it is definitely a bug in our code. We’ll try to resolve the issue asap.

#29152

In the case you hit a limitation of open-source CSS Parser project, which does not forgive such type of syntax errors.

We could produce a special patched version of the CSS parser for you, which ignores the directive, but without an inclusion of the patch to the main development branch of PD4ML. (An inclusion would require a port of the changes to .NET and it is not that trivial for JavaCC auto-generated stuff)

#28836

following your advices , logs show us the font was not read,the font is loaded when the “font-family” property is read in our css, so we had fix our problem.

Thanks for answer.

#28837

Glad you solved the problem!

#26798

Hi there

Using a string as a parameter to pass to PHP’s exec() function appears to not do anthing for me, but copying and pasting the string into Terminal creates the PDF as I require.

I would like to debug it to see whats up, but I can’t work out from the docs how to do this.

This is my string:

cd; java -debug -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx512m -Xbootclasspath/a:ss_css2.jar -jar pd4ml.jar 'http://domain/test.php?id=x' -out /tmp/50b75b0abc95e.pdf

Any help would be gratefully received.

I’m sure its not a user permission as I had something working earlier.

#29160

It turned out, that the apache user was having issues reading the JAR file, but not reporting it.

So, in the exec I now cd into the correct folder (explicitly) and it works fine.

Just took a lot of working out as I had no real error information, until I worked out which user apache was running under (_www) and running the command as that user.

Incase anyone else has this issue…

#26799

Hello. I’m trying to get a footer for the last page.

I can do a footer for each page (appears nicely at the bottom)
I can do a footnote for the last page (appears only on the last page)

How do I combine them?

I want the footnote to be at the bottom, I tried this:

<pd4ml:footnote noref="true"><br /> <pd4ml:page.footer><br /> Last page footer content goes here.<br /> </pd4ml:page.footer><br /> </pd4ml:footnote>

But it still doesn’t do what I want. I could do with scope=”lastpage” if I’m honest with you. But I’ve read somewhere that its fundamentally difficult. So any advice I would really appreciate on how to get this to work as desired.

#29162

Sometime ago we discussed scope=”lastpage” feature.
html-pdf-faq-f1/scope-lastpage-t356.html
Probably you’ve seen the topic before.

#29161

Glad you solved the issue and thank you for the sharing of the solution with us!

#29163

Yep, I read that and that’s where I got the

<pd4ml:footnote>

from, but it doesn’t put the content at the very bottom of the page, which is what I need. I tried applying this css to the div that contained the footer:

bottom: 0px;<br /> position: fixed;

But still no…

#29164

Try to set bottom margin (inset) to 0 for the entire document. That results the footnote to be moved to the very bottom.

Instantly after <body> tag or before <html> put

<pd4ml:page.footer scope="skiplast">
  or other placeholder to allocate some bottom margin space for all pages, except the last one
</pd4ml:page.footer>

#29165

Thanks, see here:

http://pastebin.com/ubp0JF8s

See if you can get the FOOTER text to be anchored at the bottom?

Thanks for your help…

#29166

This is what I get from pd4ml

#29167

Yes, I see. It was a good theoretical workaround, but unfortunately on practice it does not work. Obviously there is a bug in our code, which makes a footnote depend on the footer appearance.

We’ll check if there is a quick solution.

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