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Thomas Nunninger	Saturday 11 March 2006 7:02:37 am Hi, I'm doing my first experiences with pdf export - and have some questions. I want to output the contact data (address and sometimes email, phone, mobile and fax) of some people. - Is it really necessary to define the {pdf( 'set_margin', hash( 'line_space', 0.45 ) )} before <i>each</i> {pdf( 'new_line' )} to avoid huge spaces between e.g. street and town? What is the unit of line_space? - How can I avoid pagebreaks while outputting the contact data of one person so that pagebreaks only occur between the data of different persons? Do I need to calculate the needed space for each record and check myself if there is enough place? - Is it possible to print a simple linebreak in the outputted text without any new_line, e.g. the outputtet text is "first line<br>second line" or instead of "<br>" using "\n" or whatever - I didn't find a solution. Or do I need a text command for each line? Thank you Thomas

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Thomas Nunninger

Saturday 11 March 2006 7:02:37 am

Hi,

I'm doing my first experiences with pdf export - and have some questions. I want to output the contact data (address and sometimes email, phone, mobile and fax) of some people.

- Is it really necessary to define the

{pdf( 'set_margin',
      hash( 'line_space', 0.45 ) )}

before <i>each</i>

{pdf( 'new_line' )}

to avoid huge spaces between e.g. street and town? What is the unit of line_space?

- How can I avoid pagebreaks while outputting the contact data of one person so that pagebreaks only occur between the data of different persons? Do I need to calculate the needed space for each record and check myself if there is enough place?

- Is it possible to print a simple linebreak in the outputted text without any new_line, e.g. the outputtet text is "first line<br>second line" or instead of "<br>" using "\n" or whatever - I didn't find a solution. Or do I need a text command for each line?

Thank you

Thomas