PDF Ticket formatting

 I’m trying to set up PDF tickets and having a few problems.

When I change the font in Configuration | PDF Settings it changes for the next e-mail, but then goes back to Times New Roman. I’m generating a lot of test e-mails at the moment so I noticed this doesn’t stick.

I can’t figure out how to get our logo to appear at a predictable size in the PDF either. I can get it looking right in the editor and the HTML/CSS is all correct, but in the PDF it either appears very, very small or so large that it pushes the QRCode off the page.

I started off using standard CSS ways of sizing it proportionally, using the PNG that we normally use in e-mail, but that produced a very tiny image in the PDF. Then I tried SVG which produced an image too large in the PDF (it’s nominal size, for what that’s worth in an SVG, is 90x90). Then I tried exporting a new PNG explicity 300x300 pixels and tried specifying a width of  3 cm, but the image in the PDF is ~1.8 cm.

I can’t find any logical relationship between how the image appears in the editor or how it’s sized and how it ends up in the PDF. Do you have any recommendations?

Example in Editor:

Result in PDF:
 

Hi Seán

Sadly, working with PDF layout is much harder compare to HTML and honestly, I also do not have much experience with it

By default, Events Booking uses TCPDF for generating PDF and it does not have good support for HTML and css (only basic support). I would suggest you to try to use MPDF plugin, it uses MPDF library, and that has much better support for css. See docs.joomdonation.com/eventsbooking/plugins/mpdf

Regards,

Tuan