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Report · 12/6/10

Hi,

I am new to PDFGenerator, but after looking for quite a while I did not seem to find a question, so I decided to post - and maybe help other people who have the same issue:

How do I a control page breaks when I transform an HTML document to PDF using PDFGenerator's htmlFileToPDF method.

I am trying to use page-break-after - but PDF Generator still creates a single page.

But It could be that this is actually a symptom of a wider problem: We have a nice HTML report, which uses media print in the CSS to create a printable version, which adds page breaks, and headers and footers on the printable page in the browser - How do I tell PDFGenerator, that I want it to render the HTML as media print ?

Here is the minimal HTML make I could come up with, which shows my approach for the page breaks:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<head>

.pagebreak{

page-break-after:always;

}

</style>

<title>

2 page document

</title>

</head>

<body>

This is the first page (with p class="pagebreak" )

</p>

<p>

This is the second page

</p>

</body>

</html>

Any suggestions are welcome

Thanks

Thomas

Report · 12/7/10

I did some more trials, and here is where I am at:

As page-break-after:always; was ignored by PDFGenerator, I used a hack: I wrapped my pages inside div's which have the height of the page, and this seems to work. In addition I had to edit my CSS, and remove the @media print wrapper around my print specific CSS parts, to get my print media specific formatting inside HTML to the PDF page.

I do not consider this a solution, but more of a hack - but it might work for what we are doing, and maybe it works for somebody else.

But what I am actually trying to do is the following:

We have a systems which creates reports in HTML which can be viewed in a browser, and printed from the browser, now we try to use PDFGenerator, to generate reports in PDF, with a minimal effort ( I know this is a the wrong way arround, HTML is not a language targeted at creating printable reports, but that's what we are doing now, and I think many other people are in the same boat)

Still if anybody has a better solution, please chime in, or tell me why the hack I did is a real bad idea - any feedback is welcome

Thomas

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