Extra blank page when converting HTML to PDF using abcPDF

Question

I have an HTML report, with each print page contained by a

. The page class is defined as

width: 180mm;
height: 250mm         


        

Answer 1

Kush is correct in that "I have experienced the same exact problem. the empty page is due to the page-break-after: always; in the CSS. Not just ABCpdf but also the printed will spit out an extra page."

If a div has "page-break-after:always" IE will literally always start a new page, and if nothing is added it will just print blank. Firefox does not.

abcpdf uses IE8s rendering engine, and as such makes a blank page. For purposes of the OP, just using an explicit height should solve the problem, and the engine will insert the page breaks for you.

I am trying to solve a similar issue, where I can't set the height explicitly because sometimes the content may take 2 pages. (Each page corresponds to a person, and each person should start on a new page when printed). I emailed abcpdf as well to see if they have a hack fix to detect the empty page, but was curious if anyone knows how to fix the underlying problem and css hack IE8 so as to make it not print the final page if empty. I'm guessing it's not possible, but wanted to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.