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Status of renderAs advanced_pdf
As of Summer '18, this pilot program has been cancelled. The service didn't quite meet the scalability goals we needed. Safe harbor, we're working on a way to bring the program back and adapt it to ...
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External Image Link Broken when Rendering as PDF
I just figured this out after 30 minutes of Googling and thought a concise post may help others in future. It was not documented in the SFDC documentation but was on an different post from 2012.
Is ...
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My Header and Footer overlaps with the content in a PDF Visualforce Page
I think the main issues is that you should put your margin measurements in the @page element and remove them from the content div. For readability, i've put this all in one VF page:
<apex:page ...
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Render Visualforce page as PDF in landscape orientation
You have to use applyBodyTag="false" attribute in <apex:page tag as explained in Visualforce Developer Guide to render the PDF properly. I checked with the below code and I am able to render the ...
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Open PDF in browser instead of Downloading
This was actually solved by setting the pdf filetype to 'Execute in Browser' from
Setup -> Security Controls -> File Upload and Download Security
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Visualforce RenderAs PDF not supporting SLDS CSS
It is a common assumption that the HTML to PDF engine presently used by Salesforce is Flying Saucer that only supports version 2.1 of CSS (W3C Recommendation 07 June 2011) whereas SLDS is designed to ...
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How to generate a PDF and have it download from a Lightning Web Component
You can use download.js to implement this functionality. The main idea is to convert the PDF into Base64 encoded String and pass it to the download method of download.js. Which will show the file ...
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Visualforce PDF : how to display footer on ALL pages?
I finally resolve my problem by putting the <div class="footer"><some footer here</div> BEFORE the content of my page. This way I can see the footer on all the pages. If any of you know ...
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Download Invoice PDF's On List View without saving to Notes and Attachment as a zip file
Kudos to @SFDCGOD for suggesting this. I was so intrigued by his suggestion, I gave it a try.
First, I created resources for each of the Javascript files (FileSaver.js and jszip.js) and then created ...
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How would I create a PDF in salesforce on any object WITHOUT using ANY code
This is a salesforce native functionality. Just add Create PDF button in Invoice Layout.
Added Images for your reference.
As you don't mention previously that you want to use it for all object then ...
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Barcodes generation for VF PDF reports
I have personally written a barcode component that works with PDF. It's actually pretty easy. The actual component is self-contained:
<c:barcode codeValue="12345" />
Edit: Please be ...
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Collection size 1.079 exceeds maximum size of 1.000
Adding readOnly="true" to the Visualforce page should fix your problem as explained in Setting Read-Only Mode for an Entire Page.
Note that this will raise the limit from 1,000 to 10,000 so ...
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Batch Apex and performance
The batch apex is complete asynchronous process and it will execute in its own thread and hence it will not impact any data flow of your salesforce other process unless your other process depend on ...
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Download Invoice PDF's On List View without saving to Notes and Attachment as a zip file
You can do following to achieve this:
Add following javascript in your page
FileSaver.min.js
Blob.js
jszip.min.js
Pass All Id's to controller and just get there data by
getContetnAsPdf one by ...
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pageBlockTable - row number variable is not incremented
The dataTable and pageBlockTable elements do weird things for content outside of apex:column elements (usually by way of ignoring the content entirely). If you put the counter inside a column, it will ...
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Why am I not able to get full 60 second CPU time in @future method with getContentAsPDF()
getContentAsPDF actually internally performs a callout back into Salesforce as a new transaction. This means that the actual CPU time used for the primary transaction doesn't account for the time used ...
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Generate PDF with REST Web service
See getContentAsPDF() after insert a record in the same excution context that explains that the PDF generation call won't see any changes made in the transaction that calls it.
If you don't require ...
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css trouble using visualforce renderas PDF
I think it is because of this:
font-family: Arial Unicode MS;
If you replace it with:
font-family: sans-serif;
It should work ok.
From Wikipedia:
....it (sic) contains Roman (upright) glyphs ...
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Visualforce <style> tag outputting as text in PDF
The renderer only accepts style formats in the head section of the page:
<apex:page StandardController="Project__c"
extensions="projectToPDFController"
renderAs="pdf"
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Issue in PDF generation of a LWC component in Visualforce
The PDF renderer does not support JavaScript, but Aura and LWC components are always loaded via JavaScript. That means it is impossible to use renderAs to render an Aura Component or LWC component in ...
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how to include image as header/logo in a visualforce pdf page
have u tried with @top-center ? like :
@top-center {
content: "Sample Header Test";
background-image: url('{!$Resource.YOUR_IMAGE}');
}
You can use other way for reducing image size like :
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Visualforce page rendered PDF shows a strange error,
Remove the development mode toolbar by clicking on the X or whatever closes it on the right side of the bar. It can mess with things
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≤ not displayed in vf page, renderAs pdf
Update and complete solution for pdf rendering with Special characters
If the PDF file fails to display all the page’s text, particularly multibyte characters such as Japanese or accented ...
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Preview PDF file on visualforce page
I have used the object tag to display a PDF static resource so I assume this will work for your PDF link:
<object
data="{!linkToPdfFile}"
width="100%"
style="height: 500px; ...
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Save base64 data as Attachment
Did you set the contentType as application/pdf? I tried this following code and it is working for me.
String jsonStr = '<Base64 String>';
Attachment attach = new Attachment();
attach....
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Visualforce Page renderAs pdf styling does not apply
CSS transforms are not supported in PDF mode. Also, anything that starts with "-moz", "-ms", "-o", or "-webkit" are not supported. You'll have to find a CSS1- or CSS2-level support design that meets ...
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How to display downloaded PDF blob in an iframe?
You have to alter your getPDF() method and prepend data:application/pdf;base64,
public String getPDF() {
return 'data:application/pdf;base64,'+EncodingUtil.base64Encode([SELECT VersionData ...
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How to get past the URL limit error of maximum 4096 characters?
There are a few options, but basically you need to get the bulk data out of the query string.
Typically you would do this by using a POST request rather than a GET request. Since a PageReference ...
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Render PDF Blob data in visualforce page
Although this post is old, I came across the same problem and found a solution. As @jkraybill mentioned above, Visualforce will not emit binary data. This means we can't retrieve a Blob from ...
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Can't use getContent() in a batch, future method, trigger etc
In the past, we were using an HTTP request to achieve this. However, as of Winter '16, Salesforce allows calls to getContent() and getContentAsPdf() within asynchronous Apex (batch, future methods).
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