Create a Column Break on PDF

  • Resolved Andreia Peixoto

    (@andreialuka)


    10 years ago

    Hello.
    I’m using forms with the Gravity pdf plugin to send by email the final answers of the form in a pdf.

    I read most of your documentation on formatting the final pdf file, but I’m having an issue I hope you can help me with.

    Since the answers to my form are so small and I MUST reduce the final number of pages, I though it would be great if the info was “printed” on 2 columns per page by doing some sort of a column break. I played around with CSS but I can’t get it to work.

    Is it possible to do it?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-pdf-extended/

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  • Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    10 years ago

    Hi,

    You’ll need to create a custom PDF template to achieve what you want.

    I recommend taking a look at mPDF’s column HTML tags. You can read more about it in their documentation.

    Thread Starter Andreia Peixoto

    (@andreialuka)

    10 years ago

    Hi Jake. I’ve done it already and been playing around with CSS but I can’t get it to work. Want me to show you what I’ve got?

    Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    10 years ago

    Sure. Post a Gist of your template and I’ll take a look when able.

    Thread Starter Andreia Peixoto

    (@andreialuka)

    10 years ago

    Forget it Jake, you’re a LIFESAVER 😀

    I was using something like this “$mPDF->SetColumns(nCols[, vAlign [, gap ]]);” and for some reason it wasn’t working.

    I tested this one “<columns column-count=”n” vAlign=”justify” column-gap=”n” />” suggested on the link you mentioned and IT WORKED 😀

    Amazing, thank you so much. Really. 😀

    Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    10 years ago

    Glad to be of help.

    For the record, Gravity PDF templates are sandboxes in mPDF’s WriteHTML() method. This means you don’t have access to any of the PHP methods like $mpdf->SetColumns(), but have full access to any of the helper HTML like <columns>.

    Thread Starter Andreia Peixoto

    (@andreialuka)

    10 years ago

    Noted 😉

    n8thegr8422

    (@n8thegr8422)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hello, I am having a similar issue and the links you provided for mPDF are no longer active 🙁

    I got pretty close with my custom template, but running into some issues.
    I would like the form data to be outputted to a 1 page pdf that is landscape (A4-L) and in 3 columns. I need the overflow from column 1 to be pushed into column two then. Right now it starts a new page and doesn’t utilize columns 2 and 3.

    Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

    Plugin Author Jake Jackson

    (@blue-liquid-designs)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    The manual is still there, just the URL structure has changed. See http://mpdf.github.io/reference/html-control-tags/columns.html

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