Tag Archives: PDF

New Feature: Make the Store Address’s First Line Stand Out on Magento PDF Invoices

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Want to make your store name stand out on your PDF invoice (example to the right)?

By default, Magento’s PDF invoice displays your entire store address/information block using the same font/font size. Now, Ben Gribaudo’s Customizable PDF Invoice Module gives you separate font/font size settings for both the store address’s first line and the rest of the address. Continue reading

Released: Customizable PDF Invoice Module for Magento

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It’s released! Use Ben Gribaudo’s Customizable PDF Invoice Module to style your Magento PDF invoices.

  • Choose the font/font size for each component on the invoice. Use one font for store info, another for item details, make the totals section larger….
  • Set the page size and margin. If you’d like, output invoices as letter-sized instead of Magento’s A4 default. Continue reading

New Module Feature: Customize Magento PDF Invoice Item Columns

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New feature—the forthcoming PDF invoice customization module allows item columns (item name, SKU, price each, tax, etc.) to be customized in three ways:

  • Show/Hide: Selectively remove item columns from the invoice. Perhaps your products are sales tax exempt—use this module to hide the tax column. If you sell your products only in quantities of one, use this module to remove the quantity column.
  • Width: Change column widths. Specify values in points or percentage.
  • Text Align: Set to left, center or right on a per-column basis. Continue reading

Magento PDF Invoice Customization

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Over the past month or so, I’ve been building a Magento eCommerce module allowing PDF invoices to be customized in four areas:

  • Page Size: By default, Magento PDF invoices are rendered as A4 pages. Most of us in the US would probably prefer that these PDFs be outputted using the letter page size (8.5″ * 11″) to match the paper we use. This module allows easy configuration of the invoice’s page size.
  • Logo Size: By default, Magento requires that your logo be 200 pixels by 50 pixels. With this module, your logo can be any size that will fit on the page. Continue reading

Zend Pdf Coordinates

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Thought I would share a few things I recently learned about coordinates when using Zend Framework‘s Zend Pdf library.

  • The typographical point is the unit of measurement used for all coordinates. 72 points equals 1 inch. An 8.5″ * 11″ page is 612 * 792 points.
  • The x/y coordinate origin is the bottom left corner of the page. If you are laying out a page from top to bottom, the y-coordinate will get smaller as you work your way down the page.
  • Lines are centered on their coordinates. Continue reading