Textarea with linebraks in TCPDF

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Title: Line breaks from textarea not respected in PDF output (ChronoForms8 / TCPDF) Message: Hi there, I'm using ChronoForms8 and generating a PDF with TCPDF. I have a form with two textarea fields: "Billing Address" and "Delivery Address". In the PDF template, I'm using {data:rechnungsadresse} and {data:lieferadresse} to insert the content. However, line breaks from the textarea input are not preserved – everything appears in a single line in the generated PDF. I tried using :html to convert the line breaks into , but it doesn't seem to work inside the table cells. Is there a proper way to display multiline textarea content with line breaks in the TCPDF output? Thanks in advance for any tips!

Max_admin · Accepted Answer

Hi mobusag

I have added this to the next update:

{data.br:field_name}

and it will convert new lines to line breaks

But for now you will need a PHP action:

return nl2br($this->data("field_name"));

then you can use {var:php_action_name} in your PDF template content

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