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10 years 1 month ago #104650 by StevenGo
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Hello,
I would like to modify the pdf-layout of the exported results. But I have no idea where to do so. It looks like it can't be done in the templates. And I can't find the php-file where it's config is stored.

So any help would greatly appreciated! ;-)

Thanx in advance!
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10 years 1 month ago #105114 by Nana111
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HI there
For me ,i used to modify the pdf layout using a PDF document editor SDK .It offers a robust feature set to support all your PDF document level processing needs.In the process of document page modification and manipulation,there are two programming classes that will be used. One is PDFPage and the other is PDFDocument.You can also have a try.
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9 years 6 months ago #112323 by tammo
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Probably your problem has been solved, but just as a reminder for people that landed on this page through a search engine:

since the PDF output from LimeSurvey is a bit hard to alter, we use MPDF implemented in the backend. This works great, but you have to do some styling yourself.

www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php


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8 years 2 months ago #129893 by jerryd
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hello tammo i was looking for this kind of problem and i found mpdf but i don't know how to install mpdf in my lime survey surver pls could you tell me? how to do?



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8 years 2 months ago #129912 by tammo
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8 years 2 months ago #129926 by jerryd
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tnx for the fast reply sorry i am not familiar with this kind of things i don't know how to use it i was follow the instruction to install and it's installed but is their any thing i had to add to let it work .



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8 years 2 months ago #129945 by DenisChenu
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tammo wrote: Probably your problem has been solved, but just as a reminder for people that landed on this page through a search engine:

since the PDF output from LimeSurvey is a bit hard to alter, we use MPDF implemented in the backend. This works great, but you have to do some styling yourself.

www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php

Hi tammo, in one of my plugin, i use tcpdf BUT with $pdf->writeHTML : i take the HTML from a question text, and add some basic css. (example from tcpdf website : www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_054.pdf )

I don't have a good css margin/padding/position system but it work good.

css padding and margin are used with mpdf ?

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8 years 2 months ago - 8 years 2 months ago #129954 by JanE01
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Hi Denis,

DenisChenu wrote: I don't have a good css margin/padding/position system but it work good.
css padding and margin are used with mpdf ?

On behalf of Tammo: margins, padding and positioning are an oldie in mPDF. They practice what they preach: mpdf1.com/examples/new_features_4_0.pdf (page 3).

Or a little bit more recent: mpdf1.com/examples/mpdf54demo.pdf

Open the examples on www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php?page=Examples and try to find something that they do not support...
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8 years 2 months ago #129962 by DenisChenu
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JanE wrote: On behalf of Tammo: margins, padding and positioning are an oldie in mPDF. They practice what they preach: mpdf1.com/examples/new_features_4_0.pdf (page 3).

Or a little bit more recent: mpdf1.com/examples/mpdf54demo.pdf

Hi,

Yes but it's "code generated" system. Here , i use only HTML done by "admin user" with HTML editor. Adding a simple css
div{margin:0 auto; width: 50%} for example don't really work .

I ask for publication of the plugin and send the git link here. This can be tested with mpdf : HTML+CSS only :).

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7 years 11 months ago #134783 by first
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After a long day of exploring different options I have decided to go with phantomjs. :)

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