COLDFUSION: cfdocument and forcing a pagebreak

Question

I am creating a dynamic PDF in ColdFusion and having an issue with \"pagebreak\". The page in question could have 1 record, or up to 60+ records. Each record is displayed

Answer 1

Try adding a style="page-break-inside: avoid;" to any element that you don't want to be split between 2 pages.

For instance,

<tr style="page-break-inside: avoid;">
   <td>#Title#</td><td>#Price#</td>
   <td colspan="2">#Description#</td>
</tr>

Answer 2

For me, after trying all the tricks and forum hints etc. - the only thing that worked in cf8 for larger blocks of code (including images, tables, div block etc.) is:

• wrap the non page breaking part with

  <div>...</div>

• but a super simple <br> after it in a new line (in code) e.g.

  <div> ... your stuff ... </div> <br>

that worked, hell knows why...

Answer 3

After wrestling with this issue on and off for several months, I've discovered that wrapping the contents of a td with a div (ie.<tr><td><div>Cell Contents</div></td></tr>) will prevent a page-break inside the row. With this setup, a page-break that would normally split the row between pages will instead fall before the row, creating a little extra whitespace at the end of the first page and placing the row at the beginning of the next page.

Note about rows with multiple cells: A single td-nested div is sufficient to cause the above behavior for the whole row.

<tr>
    <td>Blah blah blah blah blah</td>
    <td>Gnar gnar gnar gnar gnar</td>
    <td><div>Soda POP soda POP soda POP</div></td>    <!--- the fix --->
    <td>Stellar!</td>
</tr>

Answer 4

You are hiding the 9th record because you are choosing between displaying it and showing it:

if 9th record
    break page
else
    show record
end if

What you want is more like:

<cfoutput query = "sqllookup">
    <!--- this is the 9th row, because 9 mod 9 is 0 --->
    <cfif not sqllookup.currentrow mod 9>
        <cfdocumentitem type="pagebreak" />
    </cfif>
    <tr>
        <td>#Title#</td><td>#Price#</td>
        <td colspan="2">#Description#</td>
    </tr>
</cfoutput>