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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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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 -> File Upload and Download Security
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 control the page size of the PDF generated from Visualforce page
Specify the page size using the CSS size attribute.
<style>
@page { margin: 0.25in; size: 4in 4in; }
</style>
You won't find this in the standard Salesforce documentation, but the ...
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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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Getting "PDF generation failed. Check the page markup is valid." Error from tables?
Edited to be more like an answer.
There could be many answers to this problem.
Ultimately "Check your css!"
I received this error earlier today and isolated right down to a height tag in my CSS ...
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How do I get a line break in a Visualforce page IF formula?
Rather than trying to do everything in a large formula you can break it up into several controls.
Before:
<apex:page renderAs="PDF" standardController="Account">
{!IF(Account....
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Render Visualforce page as PDF in landscape orientation
Post-API version 27, you need to have the <html> tag in your VF page for
@page {
size: landscape
}
to work, plus you'll need to apply applyHtmlTag="false" to the apex:page tag. So your code ...
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Visualforce PDF : how to display footer on ALL pages?
I think you almost got it but missed two minor things.
You mentioned applyHtmlTag="false" but there is no HTML tag in the code.
You have div tag for footer but there is no content inside it. Try add ...
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how to make the link active in pdf when we render the visual force page as PDf?
If you look at the documentation for <apex:commandLink>, you will see that the action parameter invokes a server method using AJAX. You can't use Javascript in a PDF. The <apex:outputLink> ...
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Protect a generated PDF
You can create a Username - Password step before allowing anyone to download your PDF. If you inform the user that he can download a PDF after inserting a Username and Password you can do something ...
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Remote Objects do not work when rendered as PDF?
According to this article:
PDF rendering doesn’t support JavaScript-rendered content.
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