Comments on: Revisited: Tcpdf – Variable Height Table Rows With MultiCell

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:51:51 +0000

Thanks Dan, very helpful and to the point.

By: kimosabi

kimosabi — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:04:55 +0000

@mrb – I’m having a problem generating a table with no images in it. After the first page break, the row heights are really high and all row field text are rendered on top of each other.

I’ll post an example with source if you like.

By: mr b

mr b — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:59:03 +0000

Tx Dan… i’m using it in my project, and tweaking as I go…

By: dan

dan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:35:50 +0000

@mrb – Great to see an update. Thanks.

By: mr b

mr b — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:18:44 +0000

i've been using the easyTable class and have done some bug fixes and updates... here is the latest version, now supports multi image formats of TCPDF... Latest Version The notes.txt file has the changelog in it, highlighting fixes/updates... The first beta is no longer available, heres an example, using the latest version, from one of my projects... the green image blocks are to test PNG support, it's not perfect but I'll keep tweaking till I'm happy! Example mr b

By: mr b

mr b — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:03:47 +0000

It’s been a busy day, i’ve got a beta version ready for all of you…

First another example:
http://www.oceanit.co.za/easyTable/example.pdf

Classes(EasyTable and PDFImage) + notes:
http://www.oceanit.co.za/easyTable/EasyTable.beta.zip

If you got any questions you can contact me at:
easytable-at-oceanit-dot-co-dot-za(no dashes)

I may consider integrating the PDFImage class into EasyTable, thoughts/feedback are welcome…

Maybe it’s time for my own blog??

Bretton

By: mr b

mr b — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:56:51 +0000

The header per page was a headache, I tried to override the setTableHeader method(tcpdf) for HTML tables, but it was a miserable failure… tried to override the header(tcpdf) method, failure… got a successful workaround(hack), just tweaking a few issues that the workaround created…

Hopefully I’ll post the code later today as a beta…

bretton

By: dan

dan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:20:45 +0000

@mrb – Thats great news. I look forward to seeing the finished class

By: mr b

mr b — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:12:20 +0000

Hi Dan and others, I’ve been using ROSpdf for a few years, but decided to try another pdf library since ROSpdf is no longer being dev’d/maintained and is stuck in PHP4 land… rosPDf had a really cool method called easyTable, which did all the hard graft for formatting a PDF table… many of my apps reports rely on pdf table structures… i too noted the irritating issue with getNumLines… i’ve got an accurate robust workaround… i’ve build a class for automating tables using TCPDF and your work(thanks)… with the following features:

- include pdf images per cell
- control pdf image size, horizontal and vertical alignment
- cell width control, as well as an auto width feature, for all or selected cells
- accurate multi line cell height measuring
- define row fill style… no fill, fill all, fill alternate rows
- set text alignment per column
- set inter cell spacing, vertical and horizontal seperately

I am busy with the column headers at the moment, as soon as this is done I’ll supply the code…

In the meantime take a look at a sample here:

http://www.oceanit.co.za/SnapShotXML2PDF.pdf

I’ll am planning on running this like a mini project and adding requested features as I have time…

Bretton

By: dan

dan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:55:41 +0000

@Nathan Thanks for your offer, unfortunately I just don’t have a lot of time at the moment – I am juggling a fulltime job and a startup. TCPDF has an active forum at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/forums/forum/435311 that may be of some help.