3. Styles and layout
CSS Stylesheets
Custom layouting and styling of the pdf document is quite
rudimentary, as only a very limited subset of html tags and
especially css styles are supported.
It is possible to override some of the existing itextSharp
functionality to improve on html parsing and css support, but
currently the standard iTextSharp code is being used in the
component.
As far as I could see from the iTextSharp sourcecode the
following css styles are supported:
- vertical-align
- line-height
- font-familiy
- font-size
- font-weight
- font-style
- color
- text-decoration
- text-align
- padding-left
As you see, this implies that you have to be quite careful in
generating your html to get your html/pdf as similar as
possible.
As an example, the H1 tag of this document looks like this:
h1 {color: #606d7a; font-size:25px; line-height: 400%;}
Umbraco templates
By default the template attached to each content node will be
used to render the html. However, it is possible to use an
alternative template for every node converted, as you sometimes
wish to make the printing-template slimmer than you normal
template, excluding navigation controls, links, banners etc.
To add an alternative template to you node, add this property to
your document type
PdfCreatorAltTemplateId (integer type
templateid)
For every content node processed the PdfCreator will examine the
node to check whether an alternative template is specified or not.
In case an alternative template is specified, this will be used for
rendering the node - otherwise the standard node template will be
used.
