Formatting tables in PDF

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In looking to upgrade from Lucee 5.2 to 5.3.3.60, we had some trouble with the formatting of PDF documents. The example below shows that when we center-align a table, whether with align=“center” or magin:0 auto, the table isn’t aligned in the center and we lose control of the width of the table.

<cfdocument format="pdf">
<table width="100%" style="border:1px solid">
<tr><td>
  <table width="360" style="border:1px solid">
  <tr><td style="border:1px solid">This is some text that goes in a table, which I'd like to place centrally on the page by using a style that sets margins automatically.</td></tr>
  </table>
<tr><td>
  <table width="360" align="center" style="border:1px solid">
  <tr><td style="border:1px solid">This is some text that goes in a table, which I'd like to place centrally on the page by using a style that sets margins automatically.</td></tr>
  </table>
<tr><td>
  <table width="360" style="margin:0 auto; border:1px solid">
  <tr><td style="border:1px solid">This is some text that goes in a table, which I'd like to place centrally on the page by using a style that sets margins automatically.</td></tr>
  </table>
</table>
</cfdocument>

Would this be a bug in the PDF application or just the new PDF engine working differently?

Thanks,
Simon

2

that’s going to be a quirk in the flying saucer pdf engine, maybe try using divs instead of tables?

3

Thanks Zac. We use a shed load of tables, so we might use the this.pdf.type=“classic” approach for now.

4

If you downgrade the pdf version into 1.0.0.69-SNAPSHOT its also working fine.

5

so there’s a regression? is there a bug about this?

6

I filed the new bug for this issue. [LDEV-2348] - Lucee