Setting margins on PDF's
How can I achieve setting margins in PDF's generated in Pega?
I have a requirement to generate PDF's that can be printed and used in windowed envelopes. I'm using the OOTB Activity HTMLToPDF. Neither this Activity or the Java API it uses (PDFUtils) have any settings for margins.
I have managed to get it to almost work by placing the content in a table and using CSS to apply margins for columns/table rows to approximate side and top margins. This only works if the content fits entirely on one page and isn't long enough to go past the desired bottom margin. Top and bottom margins are not applied to any subsequent pages (as is expected using an HTML table in this way).
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Question was answered in this posting:
https://pdn.pega.com/forums/prpc/correspondence/impose-margin-at-the-generated-pdf-file
Tara
Pega Academy Support Team
SkillStorm
US
Answer copied here for convenience:
The source is an HTML rule. I ended up posting about this on Pega Mesh and getting the problem solved. Check here.
FYI, a feature request has been submitted for updating the OOTB Activity HTMLToPDF to take in params for margins.
FDBK-11710: Allow PD4ML method "setPageInsetsMM" to be set from HTMLTOPDF
Pega
IN
Hi Hermy,
We had similar requirement for generating PDF where the user want to use this PDF for printing, we customised the Cell inline style in the presentation tab of the cell and provided margins.