Re: TCPDF line breaks

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:40:51AM +0900, Dave M G wrote: > PHP Users, > > Anyone using TCPDF? I find that their own forums are near dead. > > I want to accomplish something simple, but their documentation is far > from easy. > > I have a PDF where I place text in various places around the page, like so: > > $pdf->SetXY(50, 187); > $pdf->Write(0, "hello world"); > > However, in the case of really long text, the text spreads out to the > width of the page, which can break the formatting. > > All I want to do is be able to constrain the width of the text being > written, ideally by number of characters, so that it will have line > breaks and form a column of text no wider than I want. > > Is that possible with TCPDF? > > Any advice would be much appreciated. In FPDF, I find I have to do $pdf->MultiCell() to accomplish this, rather simply $pdf->Write() (it's kinda like a textarea in HTML). There's probably something comparable in TCPDF. Paul -- Paul M. Foster