I do have some questions or possibly issues concerning the convert to PDF plugin.
I began using it today and was having some trouble, so I decided to test things out focusing only on the width and height.
My tests were all focused on outputting to an A4 paper size with width of 960 and height 1080 for a Portrait and 1080 by 960 for a Landscape.
What I found was that creating a PDF by using a single element ( a group with nested groups ) of the same dimensions returned poor results.
The first test showed that a Portrait with width of 960 and height 1080 for a group of the same dimensions had squeezed together the width and did not fill the entirety of the page for the height.
Here is the screen display
Here is the PDF view
You can see that the widths of all groups inside the blue container group become narrower.
Here is a view of the PDF bottom with a height of 1080
The blue container group with a height of 1080 does not fill the entire page, which my belief was supposed to be 1080.
As I kept testing I found that the container group needed to have a width of 792 and a height of 1122 to be able to fill the page of the PDF output ( PDF output settings stayed at 960 by 1080 ) in order to fill the page completely and avoid any narrowing of the element widths.
Here is the PDF settings
Here is the output when the container group element has a width of 792 and height of 1122
Bottom
Sides
I then tested in Landscape. I set my container group to have a width of 1080 and a height of 960.
Here is the PDF setup
Here are the results
The width of the page is not filled completely and the height stretches onto a second page.
When I created a container group with a width of 1122 and a height of 793 the results were a full page with no distortion (as far as I could see)
I tested the distortion using a text element which I set to have a width of 1122.
Here it is on screen
And here it is on the PDF
It looks to me like there is no distortion when the width is set to 1122 while the PDF width is set to 1080.
My assumption when using the PDF to print a single element as I was doing in these tests, or even printing an entire page, is that if the single element or the page are set to have the same dimensions as the PDF output, that the PDF page should be filled completely and have no distortion.
Is this a bug then that the dimensions are not equal and that using the dimensions for the PDF output on the single element or page to be printed produces distortion and a non-filled page?
Another issue I am having with the PDF is that a ‘dashed’ border does not print out as dashed and instead is solid
Here is the on page display of dashed border
Here is the PDF output
And finally another issue I am having with the PDF is concerning an image.
It is not happening with every image and I have not done any testing on this to try and figure it out but perhaps you could shed some light onto it.
I have a image uploaded to AWS I am using as URL of as the data source
My assumption on this is that it is due to the fact that the image element is a SVG and for some reason when outputting a PDF the SVG original size is used and not the image element as set in the bubble editor.
Are these issues bugs?
Cheers
Matt
