Ross i am new in web2py and python so please what are you planning put in the repository because i want to generate the report by using FPDF and i also generated the report but now in the rows i have the large text so Problems are arising on the view
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Mariano Reingart <reing...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ross: > > I'm planning a unicode patch and a better support to html rendering > using web2py helpers > They will not break compatibility. > If you want, you can sent me your changes, I could add it somewhere or > using as a base of a new reporting functions. > > It would be great if you can fill an issue: > > http://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/ > > BTW, if you want, I can give you commit access. > > Best regards > > Mariano Reingart > http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar > http://reingart.blogspot.com > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Ross Peoples <ross.peop...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I had to write a lot of code to get FPDF to do proper headers, footers, > and > > page numbers. Then about another 100 lines of code to get it to wrap long > > lines of text inside of a table. I'm also not using HTML to PDF > conversion. > > I am using FPDF's methods to create PDFs. If I recall correctly, I tried > to > > use paragraphs and even new line characters to force the line to break, > but > > ended up having to use absolute positioning for the lines. It sounds > > terrible, I know, but I have been using this successfully for a little > > while. I basically wrote a module that takes a query (just like > > SQLFORM.grid) and generates a PDF with headers, footers, a logo, and can > > even group data into multiple tables, all while wrapping long text and > > repeating column headers on each new page. It was a lot of work, but the > > reports look pretty good. > > > > Mariano, what about FPDF are you planning on updating? And are you > planning > > to break backwards-compatibility? >
