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Getting "0 Box property calculation requires containing block width" with DOMPDF output
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cheesegrits
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Unfortunately there really isn't much we can do about PDF issues. We use 3rd party libraries (DOMPDF and MPDF), which are always "work in progress". All I can ever do is update the code we ship to their latest releases. And DOMPDF is still working on Bootstrap support.
https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/issues/1578
You could try switching from DOMPDF to MPDF, see if that helps. We ship two libraries because each has it's own issues and idiosyncrasies, sometimes one works better than the other for specific renderings.
I can try updating DOMPDF, as they seem to have just released 0.8.3 (we're running 0.8.2), literally this morning, but looking at the commit list I don't see anything addressing this specific issue.
-- hugh
https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/issues/1578
You could try switching from DOMPDF to MPDF, see if that helps. We ship two libraries because each has it's own issues and idiosyncrasies, sometimes one works better than the other for specific renderings.
I can try updating DOMPDF, as they seem to have just released 0.8.3 (we're running 0.8.2), literally this morning, but looking at the commit list I don't see anything addressing this specific issue.
-- hugh
cheesegrits
Support Gopher
OK, I did a Composer library update, which updated both DOMPDF and MPDF:
https://github.com/Fabrik/fabrik/commit/91865722be4578a0d855437ecb5f8e0b51727781
... and added a "PDF Bootstrap" option to both form and list settings (same place you set orientation and page size), which now controls whether we include the default Bootstrap CSS files when generating a PDF. Default before was to always include it:
https://github.com/Fabrik/fabrik/commit/df7d0b6a1c7235d46ebf9a2d66f38fb4083e61b9
I don't know whether either the library update or the new option will fix your issue - you can try turning PDF Bootstrap off, although as the tooltip says, rendering a Bootstrap template without the CSS won't be pretty, but if it does work, something is better than nothing.
As for "it worked before 3.9", that's because we updated from a very old version of DOMPDF in 3.9. Which fixed an awful lot of other issues, but has obviously introduced some others. Which is just how life is with PDF libraries, unfortunately. There is no magic bullet, no library that works 100% converting HTML to PDF.
So if you want to do a full github update (see Wiki), and let me know if anything helped ...
Of course, I strongly suggest doing an Akeeba backup before updating, in case the update makes things even worse.
-- hugh
https://github.com/Fabrik/fabrik/commit/91865722be4578a0d855437ecb5f8e0b51727781
... and added a "PDF Bootstrap" option to both form and list settings (same place you set orientation and page size), which now controls whether we include the default Bootstrap CSS files when generating a PDF. Default before was to always include it:
https://github.com/Fabrik/fabrik/commit/df7d0b6a1c7235d46ebf9a2d66f38fb4083e61b9
I don't know whether either the library update or the new option will fix your issue - you can try turning PDF Bootstrap off, although as the tooltip says, rendering a Bootstrap template without the CSS won't be pretty, but if it does work, something is better than nothing.
As for "it worked before 3.9", that's because we updated from a very old version of DOMPDF in 3.9. Which fixed an awful lot of other issues, but has obviously introduced some others. Which is just how life is with PDF libraries, unfortunately. There is no magic bullet, no library that works 100% converting HTML to PDF.
So if you want to do a full github update (see Wiki), and let me know if anything helped ...
Of course, I strongly suggest doing an Akeeba backup before updating, in case the update makes things even worse.
-- hugh