Scale an HTML table to fit onto a PDF page in TCPDF

Question

Is it possible to render a HTML table into PDF using TCPDF and scale it to fit the page? I have many columns in my table. Would it be possible to zoom out or scale it down so it fits?

Answer 1

TCPDF allows you to write HTML. This way, your table structure does not matter.

Example:

$tbl = <<<EOD
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th rowspan="3">Left column</th>
<th colspan="5">Heading Column Span 5</th>
<th colspan="9">Heading Column Span 9</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th rowspan="2">Rowspan 2<br />This is some text that fills the table cell.</th>
<th colspan="2">span 2</th>
<th colspan="2">span 2</th>
<th rowspan="2">2 rows</th>
<th colspan="8">Colspan 8</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>1a</th>
<th>2a</th>
<th>1b</th>
<th>2b</th>
<th>1</th>
<th>2</th>
<th>3</th>
<th>4</th>
<th>5</th>
<th>6</th>
<th>7</th>
<th>8</th>
</tr>
</table>
EOD;

$pdf->writeHTML($tbl, true, false, false, false, '');

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Answer 2

Send the page dimensions to avoid that. Set your array variable with width and height like this.

$pageDimension = array('500,300'); //width,height

Substitute this array value where you use this pre-defined TCPDF variable (PDF_PAGE_FORMAT)

Replace PDF_PAGE_FORMAT with $pageDimension