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Matthew C. Parks
Matthew C. Parks
Inspiring
August 12, 2016
Question

<cfhtmltodpf> margin

  • August 12, 2016
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Attempting to resolve an issue and I have reduced issue down to simplest form.

<cfhtmltopdf unit="in" marginBottom="1" marginLeft="1" marginRight="1" marginTop="1" orientation="portrait" pageType="letter">

this is a test <cfoutput>#now()#</cfoutput>

</cfhtmltopdf>

The Top Margin in 1 3/16 inch and Left margin in 1 1/16 inch.  In my code the margins are 1 5/16 for top and 1 3/16 for left, but we have HTML tags and style that I am thinking I will have to tweak, but the above example should give one inch and one inch on top and left margin and it is not.

Is there anything that I can do to correct this issue?  It seems like a PDF service issue to me.

CF ENT 11, update 9 on Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit.

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    BKBK
    Community Expert
    BKBKCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 13, 2016

    Please let us know what the issue is. I tested your code with

    <cfprocessingdirective suppressWhiteSpace = "yes">

    <cfhtmltopdf unit="in" marginBottom="1" marginLeft="1" marginRight="1" marginTop="1" orientation="portrait" pageType="letter">this is a test <cfoutput>#now()#</cfoutput></cfhtmltopdf><cfcontent type="application/pdf">

    </cfprocessingdirective>

    and then with

    <cfprocessingdirective suppressWhiteSpace = "yes">

    <cfhtmltopdf unit="in" marginBottom="1" marginLeft="1.1875" marginRight="1" marginTop="1.3125" orientation="portrait" pageType="letter">this is a test <cfoutput>#now()#</cfoutput></cfhtmltopdf><cfcontent type="application/pdf">

    </cfprocessingdirective>

    I got 2 PDF documents with respective margins (marginLeft=1, marginTop=1) and (marginLeft=19/16, marginTop=21/16), as expected.

    Matthew C. Parks
    Matthew C. ParksAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 14, 2016

    When I generate the odd with 1 set to all margins the margin is larger than 1 inch.  I thought I had explained that in my original post.  But that is the problem.  No html used at all just the example code I posted margins are off by 1/16 of an inch on left and 3/16 on top

    BKBK
    Community Expert
    BKBKCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 14, 2016

    Ah, it's clear. Then remove all white space, for example, as in

    <cfprocessingdirective suppressWhiteSpace = "yes"><cfhtmltopdf unit="in" marginBottom="1" marginLeft="1" marginRight="1" marginTop="1" orientation="portrait" pageType="letter">this is a test <cfoutput>#now()#</cfoutput></cfhtmltopdf></cfprocessingdirective>

    WolfShade
    WolfShade
    Legend
    August 12, 2016

    What about your HTML?  Have you set the outer containing element (div, table, etc.) to have 0px padding and margin?

    V/r,

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