Problem with tcpdf Pagebreak

Question

Hi,

I have a little problem with a pagebreak. The Multicell is displayed over the footer of the first page and then it breaks: How can I set the bottom margin of the page so that the break happened earlier above? Here is the example PDF: Example and here the sourcecode:

<?php require_once('../tcpdf/config/lang/eng.php'); 
  require_once('../tcpdf//tcpdf.php'); 

  class MYPDF extends TCPDF {
    public function Header() { 
      $auto_page_break = $this->AutoPageBreak;
      $this->SetAutoPageBreak(false,0); 
      $this->setJPEGQuality(100); $img_file = 'images/mandanten/ce_background.jpg';       
      $this->Image($img_file, $x=160, $y=72, $w=36, $h=200, $type='', $link='', $align='', $resize=true, $dpi=150, $palign='', $ismask=false, $imgmask=false, $border=0);        
      $this->SetAutoPageBreak($auto_page_break); } 
   }

 $pdf = new MYPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false); 
 $pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR); $pdf->SetAuthor('tmpAutor');  
 $pdf->SetTitle('tmpTitle'); $pdf->SetSubject('tmpSubject'); 
 $pdf->SetKeywords('tmp');   $pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN)); 
 $pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));                
 $pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED); 
 $pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, 10, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);                                   
 $pdf->SetHeaderMargin(PDF_MARGIN_HEADER);  
 $pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);             
 $pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(True, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM); 
 //set image scale factor 
 $pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO); 
 //set some language-dependent strings 
 $pdf->setLanguageArray($l); $pdf->AddPage(); 
 $pdf->SetFont('freesans', '', 16); 
 $pdf->Cell(0, 10, 'Headline', 0, 1, 'L'); 
 $pdf->SetFont('freesans', '', 11); 
 // Some Dummy Unicode content 
 $tmp = 'Lorèm ìpsum dolor sìt åmèt, čonsètètur sådìpsčìng èlìtr, sèd dìåm nonumy èìrmod tèmpor ìnvìdunt ut låborè èt dolorè mågnå ålìquyåm èråt, sèd dìåm voluptuå. åt vèro èos èt åččusåm èt justo duo dolorès èt èå rèbum. Stèt člìtå kåsd gubèrgrèn, no sèå tåkìmåtå sånčtus èst Lorèm ìpsum dolor sìt åmèt. Lorèm ìpsum dolor sìt åmèt, čonsètètur sådìpsčìng èlìtr, sèd dìåm nonumy èìrmod tèmpor ìnvìdunt ut låborè èt dolorè mågnå ålìquyåm èråt, sèd dìåm voluptuå. åt vèro èos èt åččusåm èt justo duo dolorès èt èå rèbum. Stèt člìtå kåsd gubèrgrèn, no sèå tåkìmåtå sånčtus èst Lorèm ìpsum dolor sìt åmèt.wåèdr';

$pdf->MultiCell(140, 0, $tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp."<br><br>".$tmp, 0, 'J', 0, 0, '', '', true, 0,true);    
$pdf->Output('example_051.pdf', 'I');

Answer 1

$pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER); $pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(True, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);

Have you tried:

      $pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(True, PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);

or

      $pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(True, where_I_want_break);

Answer 2

I got around this problem by using the checkPageBreak method, using a while loop. I'm using PHP 4, though. In PHP5, checkPageBreak is a private method. I think its worthwhile that we request it be made public, so that we can get more conttrol over the pages.

I also used the transaction methods so that after checking if I reached a point close to the max page height, I rolled back the transaction and did addPage().

I'll get a copy of my loop here sometime soon. This is a great library, but the auto page break is a pain with the multi-cell features.

-Jason