CFHTMLtoPDF - page breaking

Report · Jul 13, 2015

I am attempting to force a page break in my PDF and not having any luck, wondering if anyone have an suggestions that might help.

<cfhtmltopdf marginBottom="1"

marginLeft="1"

marginRight="1"

marginTop="1"

orientation="portrait"

pageType="letter"

saveAsName="PersonsName">

</cfhtmltopdf>

dsp_create_pdf.cfm contains a loop and I want to add a Page Break before each title header (to Keep it simple).

BUT reading documentation on cfhtmltopdfitem reads:

pagebreak: can be used to insert a pagebreak in the generated PDF. When <cfhtmltopdf> is used as a service, pagebreak will not work

We WANT to us cfhtmltopdf as a service, so how is this accomplished.

CSS with <p style="page-break-before: always"> </p> DOES NOT work either.

dsp_create_pdf.cfm:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>My PDF wihout page breaks</title>

</cfoutput>

.pdf

{

font-size:18pt;

font-family:"Times New Roman";

}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<table>

<tr>

Title

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

#PersonsName#

</cfoutput>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

#NOW()#

</cfoutput>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

</td>

</tr>

</cfcase>

</cfswitch>

<tr>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

#l_comments#

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

</td>

</tr>

</cfoutput>

</table>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Report · Jul 16, 2015

Hi Matthew, are you using ColdFusion 11? Could you please tell me which update level is the ColdFusion server running on?

Report · Jul 16, 2015

We are using Update 5 on ColdFusion 11 presently.

I am thinking the issue is about the TABLE structure in my HTML and that I may have to re-write it to use HTML 5 and only use the supported HTML 5 tags that I have read are only supported.

But I am open to other suggestions. That seems like it might take some effort. I only am showing part of what the whole deal it doing.

Report · Jul 16, 2015

Have you registered any pdf services in admin console of ColdFusion? If yes, then does it show any error when clicked on verify connections?

Report · Jul 16, 2015

PDF service is registered in admin and no errors when verifying connection.

Just misplaced page breaks all works as expected. PDF comes out just not as expected.

Report · Aug 12, 2016

Solution to problem ended up being removing all Table tags from the file dsp_create_pdf.cfm.

So only <DIV> <P> were used in the HTML of the CFM page and all worked as expected.

CFHTMLtoPDF - page breaking

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