A multi-page invoice table
Twelve invoice lines is one page and thirty is two, the second taking up the first's header and layout.
Pictures inside table cells
A product catalogue means photographs, and photographs come from suppliers: one is nine hundred pixels across, the next is sixteen, and no two share the same proportions. Bringing them all to a common size before the page can be laid out is a step somebody has to run, remember to run again next quarter, and account for the day it was skipped.
So the pictures go in as they came. Each is fitted, whole and undistorted, into whatever rectangle it ends up with, and where it sits inside that rectangle is the alignment the cell already had. The column keeps the width the table gave it and every row is as tall as its own text, whichever photographs arrived this morning.
What this example shows
- Images fitted into cells without stretching or cropping them.
- A picture that leaves the column its width and the row its height.
- Its place inside the cell is taken from the cell's own alignment.
The source code, complete
Nothing is left out and nothing is simplified: this is the program exactly as it runs, for the developer who uses this library. The third is the description itself: a plain list of what the page has to say, which is what the service is sent.
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The document itself
Optimised, this document weighs 75.1 kB — at least 55 % lighter than most PDF generators would write it
The document is lighter than it was, and every page still looks exactly the same. See this document's row in the table of every example.
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Cells merged down the rows
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Columns measured from their cells
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