PDF Background Colour

My form, when submitted, provides a PDF download of the form data, excellent!!

The one thing I have been trying to do, thanks to a user request😟 is to change the whole background colour of the pdf.
I have looked through the tcpdf docs on their site, but have not seen anything that shows an example of such a thing. Setting a fill colour for cells, yes but not the whole page.

I have tried adding a body class such as

body {background:#FFEDD4;}

and

body {background-color:#FFEDD4;}

but it is not being changed.

Not sure if this is even possible, or maybe something has to be added to form_actions/tcpdf/cfaction_tcpdf.php

If anyone has done the same, it would be great to hear from you

Hi K2Joom

Does this help?

Bob

Hi Bob,

Sort of helps🙂

I started off by using their working code

// Extra header voor background color
class MYPDF extends TCPDF {
    //Page header
    public function Header() {
        // Background color      
        $this->Rect(0,0,210,297,'F','',$fill_color = array(255, 170, 96));
    }
}

But that failed to load the pdf.

I wondered if the class MYDF might have been an issue, so changed the code to:

// Extra header voor background color
class TCPDF {
    //Page header
    public function Header() {
        // Background color      
        $this->Rect(0,0,210,297,'F','',$fill_color = array(255, 237, 212));
    }
}

Both were added directly before the $pdf = new

Even tried adding:

$this->Rect(0,0,210,297,'F','',$fill_color = array(255, 237, 212));

and

$pdf->Rect(0,0,210,297,'F','',$fill_color = array(255, 237, 212)); 

More digging required.