mPDF footers and headers

I'll try to see if I can find some time for that. If you feel brave and write a patch, it would help a lot :)

We need some alter-implementation in function print_pdf_mpdf_print_pdf_generate . And we will can alter $mpdf before $mpdf->WriteHTML($html);
For example $mpdf->SetHTMLFooter('my footer');

I would need that for a customer as well. Specifically

Header: 1 image + date and specific message
Footer: a bunch of icons + page number

So this would require a possibility to inject/modify header/footer on a per-document basis.
As this is probably not specific for mpdf, generic hooks to write header and footer would be required in the abstract print_pdf hooks already?
Libraries not allowing or implementing this could fall back to simply prepending/append this?

I would like to help & code, but I do not feel qualified to decide on the best approach on this.
If somebody advises me on the desired structure of interfaces, I could work out the actual insertion/printing.

I just saw, this is currently done by a bunch of per-library functions?
Is this the way to go?

Yes. I think the problem started with the fact that the header/footers in TCPDF is so specific, that no generic function would apply there. And when the other PDF libraries came along, the possibility of having a generic header/footer never crossed my mind.. Feel free to suggest something different if you have the time.

Hi,
the function to override is in print_pdf_mpdf.pages.inc called print_pdf_mpdf_print_pdf_generate.
Just need to put :
$mpdf = new mPDF('UTF-8', $format);
$mpdf->SetHTMLFooter('my footer');

Can you just tell me how I can override this function ?
Regards,

This patch inserts page number within the footer but needs testing.Hope it helps.
@zorax you are going right but for this to work you need to initialize a variable like margin_footer and then pass it within the function where you are creating an instance of class.

Attaching a new patch as previous included wrong details.

Hi,
I need to add a header and footer on my project too, as well as change the default margins.
I've tried to add the:
$mpdf->SetHTMLFooter('my footer');
And modify the $format with the margins I need (on the new mPDF)
In print_pdf_mpdf.pages.inc
And also tried on the hook print_pdf_mpdf_alter on my template.php

But nothing seems to work.. The margins are still the default ones and no footer is appearing. Any ideas why?

Here is my code modified in the print_pdf_mpdf.page.inc file.
It adds a footer and header :

line 38
// Try to use local file access for image files
  $html = _print_access_images_via_file($html, $images_via_file);

  // set document information
 
  $mpdf = new mPDF('UTF-8', $format);
  $mpdf->setAutoTopMargin = 'stretch';
  $mpdf->setAutoBottomMargin = 'stretch';
  $mpdf->SetHTMLHeader('<div><img src="http://....../bandeau_pdf.jpg" width="800px" ></div>');
  $mpdf->SetHTMLFooter('<div class="pdf_date" style="color:black; text-align:left;" >{DATE j-m-Y}</div><div class="pdf_pagination" style="color:black; text-align:right;" >{PAGENO}</div>');

Rather than hardcoding in a value which will likely only meet the needs of a single user, could the code be written to look for a tpl file and use the contents of that, if found?

You can use varius method for defining header and footer (and much more) using special HTML tags in node.tpl.php just check http://mpdf1.com/manual/index.php?tid=253

The link in #12 no longer works. Try this instead: https://mpdf.github.io/

Hello everyone, I've needed a footer with its page number and I'm using mpdf library and print_pdf_mpdf so I needed to do some changes for give that. print module support a section for footer in admin/config/user-interface/print/common so if I checked User-specified and set Page {PAGENO} of {nb}, so footer was printed after of content not in footer page, so I've created a patch for modifying and fix this issue,

this is not a different patch I just changed the path to print,

You can also add it in template directly:

<htmlpagefooter name="myFooter" style="display:none;">
  // Here goes your custom code, field...
</htmlpagefooter>
<sethtmlpagefooter name="myFooter" value="on" />

Footer #15 ok.
Header?