I am trying to export some dynamic content into a PDF file with a small bit of page formatting.
I'd like to have the PDF pages have a small padding with a border and then inside that border, a small company logo should appear up the top right on each page.
Now the issue is that because the content is dynamic, the number of pages and content per page can vary. This means I can't manually create a DIV with a border and an image inside because the content could be more or less pages depending on what gets exported.
I'm trying to find a way to create a 'page background' for each PDF page and then in this background I would then draw up the borders and the logo and then have all the content superimposed on this customer background.
Is this even at all possible with DOMPDF? Or are there any alternatives that may provide a little more customisation like this?
jfoucher's method could be what you need, but if you need an HTML content and/or a logo on each page, you could also use DOMPDF from the SVN trunk, and use fixed positionning, like if the "CSS position fixed" example here.
This is indeed possible with dompdf.
What I do is simply set the following CSS properties (or similar) on the body:
body{
background-image:url('/assets/img/bg_pdf.jpg');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: 15px 1450px;
}
In this case, I am using it for a page footer, but change these values according to your needs. The pixels values are obtained by trial and error... The background is an actual image, which you'll have to create in an image editor.
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I am trying to compile a pinterest style layout for my site. And have accomplished it, other then the load times. I have set about to get the load of my site as fast as possible.
To do so, I have come across the lazy load script (as can be found here: http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload) which essentially loads the site first, and then the images, thus speeding up the usability of the site on load, similar to what pinterest does..
The issue I have been having is, while the script works, because we have a box around each image to style and present it, and undefined sizes on the images, the layout comes out all messed up every time. Essentially, the image sizes are always surprising the layout once they load.
What is the best way about going about fixing this problem? What does pinterest do? Similar to them, we have images of all shapes and sizes, that will be added dynamically to our site by users via both php and javascript, so simply figuring out all the sizes of each image ourselves is not something we can do.
Thanks for your help!
Pinterest most likely has measured the images and stored the image dimensions in there database. Then simply output the height within the img tag, width is not dynamic as its set by CSS
First a set rule in css controls the width of the image (this wont change):
.pin .ImgLink img
{
max-width: 192px;
opacity: 1;
}
.PinImageImg
{
min-height:75px;
background-color:#f2f0f0
}
and then the HTML markup of each img tag controls the height (this changes for each image):
<img src="http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/upload/177118197817236677_8RujApQy_b.jpg" alt="Moon Goddess Gown by Halston Heritage" data-componentType="MODAL_PIN" class="PinImageImg" style="height: 288px;" />
This way there is no popping of layout as each image is loaded by javascript.
We are in the process of importing some old pages from our legacy website which was designed in tables into our new DIV based layout. Our site is built on a PHP include system, so we have our pages split into three components; header, body, and footer. These old pages need to be pulled in for our launch of revision 1.0, and then as we get all of the wrinkles ironed out, we will redesign.
Our header component is working out just fine, and the body content displays as it should, but unfortunately the existing footer element plugs into the bottom of the table. Our footer for the new design extends for 100% of the width, but the existing table only allows for 960px width. Thus our footer is getting cut off.
We are trying to find a dynamic solution, either a using JavaScript, or the jQuery Attr() call to dynamically effect the table dimensions to allow the footer to extend to the edge of the page, yet everything I have tried does not modify the table dimensions or allow overfow to show at all.
Here are a couple of screenshots for you to see what I am talking about.
Div layout:
Table Layout:
If you like to take a peek at the code, you can look at my Demo Page, but just know that this is a demo version which is not using PHP to pull in the components. Its a simple HTML/CSS based layout I have been using to search for alternatives. (I'm not a PHP guy)
We are trying to avoid having to go through hundreds of documents and cutting and pasting the footer in below the table, or having to modify any other code by hand. If we could just include a CSS or JavaScript doc in the header that would render a workaround is the ideal solution.
You can also make a div with the footer Background - separate from the contents and underneath. Put a div with the same css styles as 'footer' after your element. Then you can take the background image (footer_bg.jpg repeat-x) off of footer.
See campdavidozarks.org for a website I made with the same idea.
Center the table, and use the same footer-background on the parent, 100% width element, too with alignment to the bottom and no-repeat on y. Done. Pure CSS solution.
I am building a web app that needs to export a div to an image. That div will contain images, other divs, text with css styling, etc. At the end, the user should have an image that would look the same as if he had taken a screenshot of that div. I 've looked into server-side php libs but I don't see anything that would handle the complexity of the rendered HTML. HTML5 canvas has that capability but I can't use a canvas for my case. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Check out html2canvas. A javascript framework that renders the page content on a canvas element.
You could wrap the div in a canvas tag, access the pixel data directly, send that to a PHP script and use the data to construct an image.
Here's how you get the pixel data
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/html/canvas/pixel_manipulation_with_canvas
And here's what you would use to create an image pixel by pixel
http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagesetpixel.php
I've written a project that converts HTML with CSS styles to canvas.
It is available here: https://github.com/coolbloke1324/html-to-canvas
And an example test page is available here: http://www.isogenicengine.com/html-canvas/test/index.html
On the test page, the initial load will just show a square div with some other divs inside it with various stylings like backgrounds and borders including border radius etc. You'll see a button on the top-right of the page marked "Render". Click that and a canvas will be created and then the DOM will be parsed and rendered to the canvas. I intentionally changed the background colour of the canvas to black so you can see the difference.
I got a page here http://183.78.169.53/tyre2/page2.html. For now is static but I will be reading from the database and form something like this dynamically. The problem as I read position ID from the db and would like to place on each of the tyres? Any idea how to achieve it?
There are a fews ways to put labels on images in web applications.
Make an HTML element like a div or span, whose css background property is an image. You will have
to change the css dynmaically if the image is read from a database.
Generate a new image by compositing the text and background image server-side (but that is sooooo 1990s!)
Generate the whole display using <canvas>
Given what you have already, I would go with option 1.
You can put another image with the number on top of the tires. Alternatively, if all the images are the same, you can set the image as a background for the div/li/aand print the number as plain text.
If every picture is different, you can assign every div (or whatever it is) an I'd, and echo custom CSS that sets a different background image for each div.
i am trying to display a webpage within a webpage as you can see over here
http://www.yoursdproperty.com/index.php?option=com_jumi&fileid=8&Itemid=34
the top and left part is my site, and the stuff that is the main content in the middle is a different site. i may not be doing it correctly since it is not displaying it at size that fits.
the main content page is:
http://www.mlsfinder.com/ca_sandicor/raphaelshapiro/index.cfm
You will struggle to make this work perfectly for the following reasons:
You're trying to fit an 800px wide web page into a 700px wide div.
You cannot access the child frame's DOM to manipulate it because it's on a different domain.
You cannot rely on a consistent height for the child frame. Although it has a fixed width, users with different accessibility settings (such as default font sizes) could cause text to wrap and adjust the height of the document.
Although you can overcompensate for point 3 by increasing the height of the iframe to allow for any extra height, you can't really deal with point 1 without changing the layout (mainly the width) of your site.
If I were you, I would look into other avenues of adding the functionality you're looking for. Maybe by contacting the site owner and seeing if they can accomodate your needs.
You are doing it correctly, the page won't fit as it's a fixed width of 800 pixels, it will not squeeze down to fit in your page. So only option for you is to stretch your content area to 800 pixels.
Remove the width and height properties of the iframe tag. Adjust the width style property in the style property so that it is the correct size for the page. It appears that you need to make the iframe wider.
<iframe src="..." frameborder="0" style="width:800px;height:480px;" />
Another option, of course, would be to remove the 'scrolling="no"' from the iframe tag to allow users to use the scrollbar to see the entire inner page.