Inserting line breaks into PDF

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I m generating some PDF file on the fly using PHP  My problem is I need to insert line breaks in some part of the text that will be inserted in the PDF file  Something like    pdf- gt InsertText  Line one n nLine two      So it prints      Line one      Line two   I know  n doesn t work on PDF  but do you guys know any character or something that represents a line break on these files

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Your code reads    pdf- gt InsertText  Line one n nLine two      I don t know about the PDF library you re using but normally if you want  n to be interpreted as a line break you must use double quotes in PHP  e g    pdf- gt InsertText  Line one n nLine two

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Another solutions  works with TCPDF   Use HEREDOC for a long string  Put HERDOC for a CONST for example  define different languages      prepare const EN    lt  lt  lt EOT this is a long string and new line as well     EOT    define  STR EN     prepare const EN     pdf- gt InsertText STR EN     works for me wery well

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The solution I ve found was    text    Line one n nLine two     text   explode   n    text    foreach   text as  txt        pdf- gt Write  txt        pdf- gt Ln        So this way  you may have any number of  n in any position  if you re getting this text dinamically from the database  it will break lines correctrly

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You state that     2 is the height of the multi-line text box   No it s not  2 is the distance between lines of text   I don t think there is a real way for calculating the height of the actual resulting text box  unless you use GetY   and then subtract the original Y value used in your SetXY   statement for placing the Multicell in the first place

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If you are using fpdf  in order to be able to use line breaks you will need to use a multi-line text cell as described here   If you use this  then line breaks in your text should be interpreted and converted correctly   Just a quick example    pdf- gt Multicell 0 2  This is a multi-line text string nNew line nNew line       Here  2 is the height of the multi-line text box   I don t know what units that s measured in or if you can just set it to 0 and ignore it   Perhaps try it with a large number if at first it doesn t work

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pdf- gt SetY  Y Fields Name position    pdf- gt SetX      pdf- gt MultiCell  height  width  Line1  nLine2  nLine3  1  C  1     In every Column  before you set the X Position indicate first the Y position  so it became like this  Column 1   pdf- gt SetY  Y Fields Name position    pdf- gt SetX      pdf- gt MultiCell  height  width  Line1  nLine2  nLine3  1  C  1     Column 2   pdf- gt SetY  Y Fields Name position    pdf- gt SetX      pdf- gt MultiCell  height  width  Line1  nLine2  nLine3  1  C  1

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I changed   n  for chr 10  and it worked    pdf- gt MultiCell 0 5 utf8 decode  variable1   chr 10     variable2  1

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After having so many nightmares  I found a solution   utf8 decode chr 10     I tried  n   lt br  gt  and chr 10  but nothing worked  Then I realized that it was utf-8 and just tried the above one  It works fine with MultiCell but not with Cell

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Another option is to use TCPDF  Ln    It adds a line to the PDF with the option to set the height    If the newlines are within your content already then MultiCell   is probably the way to go  as others have mentioned  but I find I like using    pdf- gt Cell 0  0   Line 1   0  0   C     pdf- gt Ln     pdf- gt Cell 0  0   Line 2   0  0   C      It confuses me that Cell   and MultiCell   take in different arguments so I tend to stick to using Cell   only  Also it reads like a newline character for the PDF the same as  n reads like a newline character in text or  lt br gt  in HTML

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MultiCell  w   h   text lt br   gt     border 0   align  L    fill 1   ln 0       x      y      reseth true   reseth 0   ishtml true   autopadding true       maxh 0     You can configure the MultiCell to read html on a basic level

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I have simply replaced the   n  with   lt br gt   tag  Worked fine  It seems TCPDF render the text as HTML   strText   str replace   n    lt br gt    strText    pdf- gt MultiCell  width   height  strText  0   J   0  1          true  null  true

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Or just try this after each text passage for a new line    pdf- gt Write 0              0   C   TRUE  0  false  false  0

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Maybe it  s too late but I solved this issue in a very simple way   I am using the Multicell option and the text come from a form  if I use an input field to get the text I can  t insert line breaks in any way  but if use a textarea field  the line breaks in the text area are line breaks in the multicell     and that  s it  it works even if I use utf8 encode  text  option to preserve accents

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