Recently released a small quality of life improvement that allows you to break repeating groups (and regular groups) up into smaller sub-groups using square brackets ([ & ]). This makes it much cleaner to create a PDF of a repeating group that spans multiple pages.
I go through how to use this feature in the below tutorial:
Just released an updated version of the plugin that means SVG icons and images can now be generated without issue (a common problem with Bubble PDF plugins).
So the [Page Breaks] must be predetermined? On some documents content grows, but not in a predetermined location. So letās say for example that we two groups of data. One at the top, and another at the bottom. Under most circumstances both groups would print on the same pdf page. Occasionally, one of the groups would grow so that both wonāt fit on a single page. With other plugins Iāve tried, the bottom group would break where what would still fit on page one would appear, and the overflow on the second page. Iām looking for a āsmartā (for lack of a better word) [Page Break] that would in the above case move the entire bottom group to the next page.
@gnelson, yes my plugin will cleanly break the two groups onto two pages of the second grows to the point where it would otherwise overlaps on two pages.
If this is likely to occur, I STRONGLY recommending ID Attributes to all groups, rather than just having one master group.
You may have already seen it, but the below video is useful for understanding the mechanics of overflowing groups:
Than you. I will try this out. Iāve already subscribed to the plugin. Looking forward to what I think this will be able to do. PDFās have been a huge limiting factor for the things that I tend to build.
Great PDF plugin! Would it be possible to pull the image file for header/footer in a dynamic manner? Eg if I wanted to allow a user, as an option, to add a header image to a generated pdf?
Nice idea. Iāll put it on the list of things to consider implementing. May not get around to it for a couple of weeks due to the holidays, but will keep you updated!
I just downloaded this plugin. It appears to be exactly what I need. Unfortunately with my first use Iām getting the error message shown below.
Iām using it with the @alex4 plugin linked below because its not functioning correctly when it comes to saving the generated canvas. I was hoping I could get around that and also save a step and convert it directly to pdf, which is my ultimate goal.
Any idea the cause of this? Your plugin works correctly when I use it with other elements.
Hi @GEN, thanks for the kind words and will do my very best to get to the bottom of this. Iām going to send you a private message to get full details of the issue.
Hi @Tholley, thanks for using my plugin and sorry that youāre having issues with it. Its quite difficult for me to debug the issue without seeing the editor - Iām going to send you a private message now and hopefully we can get to the bottom of it
Just wanted to drop a quick note here to say that this issue has now been fixed. There was a problem with generating PDFs of repeating groups with icons in them, but the latest version of the plugin addresses this and all works as expected.
Thank you @Tholley for initially flagging the issue.
In particular, I want to highlight the āHow the plugin scales elements to the PDF pageā section. This is a common question from users, so hopefully this helps people understand how the width/height of elements on the PDF are decided
Hey! Awesome plugin but I am seeing one critical issue. When I run the workflow, the output pdf seems to not print any dynamic images - they are just blank. It also seems to force the page element that it is printing from, to also no longer show those dynamic imagesā¦