TIP : table align in pdf templates...

Monday 02 March 2009 1:12:20 pm

I have been looking around in this forum and did not find any topic concerning my problem... I found a solution, i post it here, just in case someone else needs it.

By default tables are centered in pdf templates when you use pdf(table,....).
There are two undocumented options that lets you align your table to left, center or right.

* xPos
* xOrientation

The following code lets you align your table to the left :

 
{pdf(table,$rowdata,hash('showLines',0,'width',200,'xPos','left','xOrientation','left'))}   
 

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Monday 30 March 2009 7:15:56 am

Hi,

what do you want exactly ? i work on it there are somedays ago perhaps i can help too !

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Monday 30 March 2009 10:51:47 pm

Hi All,

exactly, I need to export content into a PDF, yet the content is not a single article but numerous objects of a folder which I need to export (loop over) plus, at the end of the PDF, the google map in landscape format.

I tried your tip: /content/pdf and used override.ini.append for defining another PDF template and this seems to work:

override.ini.append:
[t_pdf]
Source=/content/pdf/full.tpl
MatchFile=t_pdf.tpl
Subdir=templates

and then I used the following URL as an example:
<a href={concat('/content/pdf/', $node.node_id)|ezurl}>PDF</a>

However, now I need to digg into the topic of formating the PDF as it looks pretty poor:
The objects need to be displayed in 2 columns, with boxes around each content and a little image (page layout: portrait). At the end of the document I need to add the google map with the dynamically generated markers on it, paper size A4, landscape.

Happy for all help as I'm struggeling with this since a bit...
many thanks
Anita