PDF Grid Fields and page break [#2505223]

Hi,

I use the custom Views PDF version submitted by vegansupreme which includes the PDF Grid fields display.

It works like a charm, except for page breaks ; instead of adding a new page, the content is overlapped on the 1st page.

My view contains a single field (Global -> Custom text with rewritten fields).

I have specified a bottom margin, tried to add a "Page break" field to the view without success.

The last solution gives odd behaviour and the now number specified just does not fit what is displayed.

Enclosed, the resulting PDF file and my view export

Any idea ?

Many thanks in advance.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#6	document.pdf	10.37 KB	misterpo
	cda_2015_etiquettes_bagages.pdf	8.41 KB	misterpo
	views_export.txt	52.25 KB	misterpo

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Comment #1

vegansupreme CreditAttribution: vegansupreme commented 16 June 2015 at 15:03

Version:

7.x-1.x-dev

» 7.x-2.x-dev

@misterpo Are you using the PDF grid field display in the github repo that I mentioned in #1345182: Positioning Field Output for Columns?
If so, thanks for testing it! Glad it's (almost) working for you! I'll take a look at your views export and see if I can help you get this fixed. You say you've used a bottom margin, have you tried increasing it? Also, changing the minimal space option might work too.

Comment #2

misterpo CreditAttribution: misterpo commented 22 June 2015 at 13:10

Hi,

Yes, this is the version that I use. It works great with Grid displays.

I have tried both changing the minimal space and the margin bottom without success.

Any idea ?

Comment #3

misterpo CreditAttribution: misterpo commented 6 July 2015 at 07:18

Hi,

Sorry to insist... Do you have any idea of what can be done ?

Comment #4

vegansupreme CreditAttribution: vegansupreme commented 10 July 2015 at 20:41

Hi,
I'm trying to duplicate, but I can't exactly match your configuration. The field handler PDF: Page Break does seem to have some issues in 7.x-2.x. Have you tried not using a Page break field at all? It should automatically break when the items get to the bottom of the page.

Comment #5

misterpo CreditAttribution: misterpo commented 13 July 2015 at 07:10

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I have tried without any "Page break" field and the result is pretty much the same.

Comment #6

misterpo CreditAttribution: misterpo commented 27 July 2015 at 15:06

File	Size
document.pdf	10.37 KB

Hi,

Sorry to insist but still stuck to this page break issue.

If I don't use any "Page break" field, rows on the first page are overwritten by rows that should be on the second page.

If I set the "Page break" field to be insterted adter 21 rows on my 7 rowsx3 columns view, it almost work but the last item on the first page is displayed at the bottom of the second page...

Please see PDF attached... and help if possible.

Comment #7

misterpo CreditAttribution: misterpo commented 8 September 2015 at 16:15

Hi,

I have spent hours to figure out this page break issue... no success.

Please tell me if I should revert to the "official" Views PDF plugin to make it work.

Many thanks in advance.

Comment #8

vegansupreme CreditAttribution: vegansupreme commented 10 September 2015 at 12:58

I haven't had any time to develop this branch lately. If you can't get it to work, I'm afraid you may have to use the 1.x branch, though it's more complicated to do layout there. The only other thing I might suggest (maybe you've already done this) is starting with as simple a view as possible—maybe just the title field, and see if the page break works for that layout. If that works, gradually add more complexity. If I recall you had some headers and some rewriting going on? I hadn't tested many complex configurations so there could be some conflict there.

Comment #9

misterpo CreditAttribution: misterpo commented 18 September 2015 at 08:29

Hi there,

This PDF print functionality from a view is the core of the system I am developing for my customer.

I have many complex views to display as PDF, with Entity Reference fields rewritten in a global custom text field.

Of course, I should supply a robust and reliable system but I would like it also to be simple to configure as I would often have to fine tune it depending on the data provided.

I will give a try to a simple view embedding a single field to understand how it works.