Manual Page Break in TCPDF
Solution 1
I'm using <br pagebreak="true"/>
.
Find method writeHTML and code
if ($dom[$key]['tag'] AND isset($dom[$key]['attribute']['pagebreak'])) {
// check for pagebreak
if (($dom[$key]['attribute']['pagebreak'] == 'true') OR ($dom[$key]['attribute']['pagebreak'] == 'left') OR ($dom[$key]['attribute']['pagebreak'] == 'right')) {
// add a page (or trig AcceptPageBreak() for multicolumn mode)
$this->checkPageBreak($this->PageBreakTrigger + 1);
}
if ((($dom[$key]['attribute']['pagebreak'] == 'left') AND (((!$this->rtl) AND (($this->page % 2) == 0)) OR (($this->rtl) AND (($this->page % 2) != 0))))
OR (($dom[$key]['attribute']['pagebreak'] == 'right') AND (((!$this->rtl) AND (($this->page % 2) != 0)) OR (($this->rtl) AND (($this->page % 2) == 0))))) {
// add a page (or trig AcceptPageBreak() for multicolumn mode)
$this->checkPageBreak($this->PageBreakTrigger + 1);
}
}
Solution 2
You might use TCPDF's AddPage() method in combination with explode() and a suitable delimiter:
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8',
false);
// TCPDF initialization code (...)
$delimiter = '<h1>';
$html = file_get_contents('./test.html');
$chunks = explode($delimiter, $html);
$cnt = count($chunks);
for ($i = 0; $i < $cnt; $i++) {
$pdf->writeHTML($delimiter . $chunks[$i], true, 0, true, 0);
if ($i < $cnt - 1) {
$pdf->AddPage();
}
}
// Reset pointer to the last page
$pdf->lastPage();
// Close and output PDF document
$pdf->Output('test.pdf', 'I');
Solution 3
I tried using
<br pagebreak="true" />
or
<tcpdf method="AddPage" />
each of them resulted not in starting new page at the top of the page but adding the full A4-page empty space in between HTML text. So if text ended in the middle of the page and then page break was inserted, the new text was written from the middle of the next page. Which I didn't want.
What worked was this (found it here TCPDF forcing a new page):
$pdf->writeHTML($content, true, 0, true, 0);
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->setPage($pdf->getPage());
This now starts with writing text on top of the page.
Solution 4
TCPDF support the 'pagebreak' attribute for HTML tags and CSS properties 'page-break-before' and 'page-break-after'.
For example you can use <br pagebreak="true" />
.
Check the official http://www.tcpdf.org website and forums for further information.
Solution 5
With version 5.9.142 from 2011-12-23 we could use the page-break-before, page-break-inside
css properties, like this:
<div style="page-break-inside:avoid;">
some non breakable text
</div>
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Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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swapnilsarwe almost 2 years
I am using TCPDF to generate the PDF in one of my projects. I simply create a HTML file and give it to the TCPDF to handle the PDF generation. But now I have some HTML where multiple certificates are added one after the other and I want to have a page break in it. Page Break should be decided by HTML i.e. I want to know if there is any identifier in HTML which TCPDF understands and then accordingly adds a page break into the generated PDF.
How could I do this?
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atif over 11 yearsit was a life saver Amdy, it really saved me lot of time
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Lauris Kuznecovs over 10 yearsWorked for me too! Thanks
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user2345998 over 8 yearsI'm using TCPDF 6.2.11 and <br pagebreak="true"/> works "out of the box" here - no need to modify code.
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nsilva over 6 yearsLife saver :D Thank you!
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Bhavin Thummar about 6 yearsHow can i use this thing in TCPDF version 4.6.016. Because my project is too old and i can't change version of TCPDF. So do you have any idea to use this propery "page-break-inside:avoid;" in old version "4.6.016" of TCPDF?