Only getting single page PDF

[AlecTaylor]

I am using a template from Zurb; and using WeasyPrint as an option to show the email as a PDF. Unfortunately I am only ever getting one page.

Here is a runnable test-case showing this issue:

from weasyprint import HTML, CSS
from urllib2 import urlopen

if __name__ == '__main__':
    html = urlopen('http://zurb.com/ink/downloads/templates/basic.html').read()
    html = html.replace('<p class=\"lead\">', '{0}<p class=\"lead\">'.format(
        '<p class=\"lead\">{0}</p>'.format("foobar " * 50) * 50))
    HTML(string=html).write_pdf('foo.pdf',
                                stylesheets=[CSS(string='@page { size: A4; margin: 2cm };'
                                                        '* { float: none !important; };'
                                                        '@media print { nav { display: none; } }')])

How do I get multiple pages?

[SimonSapin]

CSS(string='@page { size: A4; margin: 2cm };'
           '* { float: none !important; };'
           '@media print { nav { display: none; } }')

CSS does not use semi-colons between rules, so your second and third rules here will be invalid: they’re style rules whose selectors start with a semi-colon. But fixing this does not fix your pagination issue.

I see you’re using * { float: none !important; }, so you may be aware that WeasyPrint does not support page breaks inside float. Unfortunately, it also can not break table cells (only between table rows at most), and this document uses tables for layout.

Now if you can’t change the HTML for some reason, you could butcher the document with a stylesheet like table, thead, tbody, tfoot, tr, th, td { display: block }, but I really recommend not using table nor floats for layout in the first place, when targeting WeasyPrint.

[jdus]

All the paragraphs are in one single cell and, as Simon stated, Weaspyrint does not allow to split table cells (yet). If you could rearrange the code, so that the paragraphs would all reside in their own table cell and row, it should work.

E.g.

<tr><td><h1>Hi, Susan Calvin</td></tr>
<tr><td>paragraph 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>paragraph 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>paragraph 3</td></tr>
...
'''

[SimonSapin]

If you could rearrange the code, so that the paragraphs would all reside in their own table cell

Or, you know, just use <p> paragraphs without a table.

[liZe]

Duplicates #36