mPDF: Text becomes small when string in table is too long

Question

I am building a mPDF code with information fetched from the database.

When the user inserts too much text, when it's printed in the mPDF, the size of the text becomes realy small. I want the text to have the same size as the rest of the document in the PDF.

Here's my code:

$mpdf->AddPage();
$mpdf->WriteHTML("<h1>Habilitações Literárias</h1>");
$mpdf->WriteHTML("<br>");

$query2=mysql_query("SELECT * from hl where id_user='$idd'" );
$row2 = array();

while ($data2 = mysql_fetch_array($query2)) {
    $row2[] = $data2; 
}

foreach ($row2 as $x2) {
    $dataa2 = $x2[0];
    $instituicao = $x2[1];
    $descricao2 = $x2[2];
    $mpdf->WriteHTML("<table border='0' width='100%'>");
    $mpdf->WriteHTML("<tr><td><b>Instituição:</b> $instituicao</td> <td><b>Data:</b> $dataa2 </td></tr>   ");
    $mpdf->WriteHTML("<tr><td><b>Descrição:</b> $descricao2 </td></tr>");
    $mpdf->WriteHTML("</table>");
    $mpdf->WriteHTML("<hr>");
}

Here is a link of an image with the example: https://i.stack.imgur.com/UrNOs.png

As you can see, the text is really small on the last record, because the "Descricao" field is very large.

Just for your information, we can fix this issue in another way also. I too faced same problem when a table tr have very big content. I tried this option - $mpdf->shrink_tables_to_fit=0 which is not helped for me. What I did, I changed the html structure from table into div and the problem fixed now. It may help some one. Thanks for posting this issue. — Manikandan S, Apr 27 '17 at 12:01
mine using this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23760018/mpdf-font-size-not-working/43996204#43996204 — Norlihazmey Ghazali, May 16 '17 at 08:42

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '16 at 07:35

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I just fixed similar problem, with style="overflow:wrap" after reading the source code:

elseif ($table['overflow']=='wrap')

answered Jul 07 '16 at 07:35

Gong ZhenHua

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You should avoid editing the source code directly if you dont want to loose your changes on library update. I did the same by changing the CSS inside html code with the style tag `table {overflow:wrap }` – BoCyrill Sep 23 '20 at 07:37

Finwe · Answer 2 · 2017-09-20T14:08:02.643

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mPDF automatically reduces font size in tables. There is a maximum shrink factor set in $this->shrink_tables_to_fit variable in config.php. It can be turned off / set differently with

$mpdf->shrink_tables_to_fit=0

in config.php or with providing an extra parameter to the opening table tag:

<table autosize="1">

Default value for the variable is 1.4.

Also see mPDF manual on tables.

edited Sep 20 '17 at 14:08

answered Jun 19 '14 at 14:15

Finwe

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