Custom css & html problems

Hi again, Jenny…

What are you trying to add, and where?

It might be easier to include your css hacks to your site’s stylesheet, instead (just a thought).

Lewis

Hi again Lewis,

Yes so I was able to find some discussion over on the SourceForge forums about how a lot of CSS attributes don’t work in TCPDF, such as text-transform and text-margins. I’ve started doing some basic testing and am compiling a list of what works and what doesn’t.

The other issue that was (is) giving me trouble, was integrating images. I had wanted to include high-res images, but it seems that the only way to do so is by using absolute positioning. For my purposes, that was just way too labor intensive. I’m currently experimenting with tables for the page layout – and whereas going between mm and pixels is proving challenging, I am making progress!

Will be happy to post some of my code when I’m further along. It’s pretty cool as the content doesn’t actually come from the published page, but other, non-published, custom-meta from the same post. ??

cheers,
-jennyb

Hi, Jenny…

Yes, TCPDF is an odd package. I also discovered some CSS which it seems to want to ignore. I installed FD Footnotes, which displays correctly and even renders nicely in the PDF, however, the separator line is omitted in the PDF. The CSS for the line (in my theme’s style.css) is:

.footnotes .footnotedivider {
  width: 120px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}

Note that the text formatting for the footnote numbering (superscript, bold, underlined) remains intact, and the footnotes themselves print as expected. Example post.

I’ve also tried upgrading the TCPDF version in WP Post to PDF, but have not quite gotten it to work.

Your image issue seems like an interesting puzzle to solve; I’m curious to see how you do that or work around it. I agree that the absolute positioning bit is a considerable amount of overkill, particularly if you have a good number of images.

Good luck with it, and please do post your results!

Cheers

Lewis