tcpdf action changes format to text

teldrive 13 May, 2014

I apreciate if anyone can help
I tested TCPDF and Works great but i detected it changes text format, eliminating "</br>" and <p> HTML codes , that changes significantly doc appearance
do i forgot some parameter, i checked everything?

 <br />
  Objetivos:<br />
  Análisis de la tasa .<br />
  Valoración de la </p>
<p>Material y métodos:<br />

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teldrive 13 May, 2014

[attachment=0]Captura1.JPG[/attachment]sorry this is the pdf output

Max_admin 14 May, 2014

Hi Teldrive,

Did you add your html code to the content box in the TCPDF settings ? please try with something simple like:

<strong>bold text</strong>

Regards,
Max

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teldrive 14 May, 2014

Hi Max, thanks by reply
I tested this simple code with just text-area field with same results

currently i have a HTML table organizing some fields

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p align="center"><img src="http://congresoseden14.es/images/clip_image001.jpg" alt="" width="773" height="104" border="0" /></p>
<font face="times new roman" size="10">
<table width="600"  border="1" cellspacing="2">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><strong>Comunicación</strong></td>
<td>{paper.posternombre}</td>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><strong>Sección</strong></td>
<td>{paper.seccionnombre}</td>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><strong>Tipo</strong></td>
<td>{paper.tiponombre}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><strong>Título</strong></td>
<td colspan="5">{paper.titulo}</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" colspan="6"> <strong>Resumen</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="6">{paper.resumen}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</font>
</body>
</html>

Max_admin 14 May, 2014

Oh, you have <html> and <body> tags ? that may not work, please remove them and test with simple formatting html tags first ?

Regards,
Max

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teldrive 14 May, 2014

Hi Max
our first test was following your advice

<strong>bold text</strong>

[attachment=0]Captura.JPG[/attachment]

teldrive 14 May, 2014

with this, results is the same

<HTML><strong>{paper.resumen}</strong></HTML>

Max_admin 14 May, 2014

So formatted bold text is working fine ?

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teldrive 15 May, 2014

Hi Max, so far results has been the same, tcpdf unformats text(eliminate <br> and <p> codes, we tested with simple HTML code as you suggested us

<strong>{paper.resumen}</strong>

<HTML><strong>{paper.resumen}</strong></HTML>

[attachment=0]Captura1.JPG[/attachment]

Max_admin 20 May, 2014

Hi teldrive,

What if you enter this code in the TCPDF content box:


first line
<br>
2nd line

What do you get ? please test this static HTML, don't use your loaded code for now or any extra html tags!

Regards,
Max

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teldrive 20 May, 2014

Hi Max, following your suggestion, result is TCPDF maintains text format
[attachment=0]Captura.JPG[/attachment]
we also tried inserting this string into variable and passing it to tcpdf using {resumen}, results was fine
[attachment=1]Captura1.JPG[/attachment]
but the issue was in the next test:
1- we insert this test in text box[attachment=3]Captura3.JPG[/attachment]
2 -we checked with debug value of array and its maintain format[attachment=2]Captura2.JPG[/attachment]
3- but when converted to PDF, it changes format
[attachment=4]Captura4.JPG[/attachment]

Gr GreyHead 21 May, 2014

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HI teldrive,

Please check this post for a way to replace line breaks with HTML breaks.

Bob

teldrive 21 May, 2014

Answer

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Thanks a lot Bob, it Works lika a charm 😀

<?php
 $form->data['input_name'] = nl2br($form->data['input_name']);
 ?>

tcpdf action changes format to text

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