<cfhtmltodpf> margin

[Matthew C. Parks]

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.

[WolfShade]

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

V/r,

^_^

[BKBK]

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]

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]

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>

[Matthew C. Parks]

The removal of white space had no effect on PDF generation.  Still 3/16 of an inch too big.

I removed 3/16 from my margin and resolved my issue for now, but I was wondering if there is a setting in an XML file or something that is messing with this at this point.

This was the solution that got margins to truly be one inch for us:

<cfhtmltopdf unit="in" marginBottom="0.8125" marginLeft="0.8125" marginRight="0.8125" marginTop="0.8125" orientation="portrait" pageType="letter" saveAsName="#l_name#.pdf">

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

</cfhtmltopdf>

[BKBK]

Hi Matthew,

If you are unable to get the margins you want, then please report a bug.

For the time being, I will recommend the Open Source tool, wkhtmltopdf, if you need hair-sharp accuracy. I shall now give you an example of wkhtmltopdf usage.

My Coldfusion is on a 64-Bit Windows machine, so I downloaded and installed wkhtmltox-0.12.3.2_msvc2013-win64.exe . The executable I wish to use is located at C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe.

I then created 2 files (within same directory under web root):

testFile.cfm

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

html2PDF.cfm

<!--- Set up wkhtmltopdf's header and footer options --->

<cfset wkHTMLToPDFHeader = '--header-spacing 2 --header-left "Header_left_text" --header-right "Header_right_text" --header-font-size 9 --header-line --header-font-name opensans_regular'>

<cfset wkHTMLToPDFFooter = '--footer-left "footer_left_text" --footer-right "footer_right_text" --footer-font-size 9 --footer-line --footer-font-name opensans_regular'>

<!--- Set up all wkhtmltopdf's options --->

<!---

Use

-B or --margin-bottom

-R or --margin-right

-T or --margin-top

-L or --margin-left

-s or --page-size

--->

<cfset wkHTMLToPDFOptions = "-B 25.4mm -R 25.4mm -T 25.4mm -L 25.4mm -s Letter --disable-smart-shrinking " & wkHTMLToPDFHeader & " " & wkHTMLToPDFFooter>

<!--- Current directory relative to web root:  /workspace/CF_Project/Pdf/ --->

<cfexecute  name="C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe"

    arguments="#wkHTMLToPDFOptions# http://localhost:8500/workspace/CF_Project/Pdf/testFile.cfm #expandpath('result.pdf')#"  timeout="10">

</cfexecute>

This creates a PDF (result.pdf) with one-inch margins. NB: 1 inch = 25.4mm. I have included, for the sake of generality, a header and a footer.

As you can see from the wkhtmltopdf documentation, you can do much more besides with this tool. Have fun with it.