The objective is: Creating a PDF having a header banner and a repeated-header table
The problem is: pdf.move_down not work if the table start a new page
CODE:
# repeat drawing in every page
pdf.repeat(:all, :dynamic => true) do
pdf.font("#{Rails.root}/vendor/pdffonts/ThonburiBold.ttf") do
pdf.font_size = 8
pdf.float { pdf.text "Time: #{tt}", :align => :left }
pdf.float { pdf.text "Page #{pdf.page_number}", :align => :right }
pdf.float { pdf.text "Inquiry Name: #{page_title}", :align => :center }
pdf.move_down 15
pdf.float { pdf.text "AS OF #{Time.now.to_date}", :align => :center }
pdf.move_down 40 ## move down to draw the following table
pdf.stroke_horizontal_rule
end
## ... building big_data_array for table ...
table_config = {
:header => true,
:row_colors => ["FFFFFF", "F0F0F0"],
:cell_style => { :padding => 1 }
}
# draw a long table
pdf.table(big_data_array, table_config) do |t|
t.before_rendering_page do |c|
pdf.move_down 40 ## try to add margin-top before render the table in every page
end
t.row(0).background_color = "DADADA"
# style rows and cells ...
end
I decided to modified Prawn::Table
method draw
to accept my offset value
module Prawn
class Table
def set_before_render_offset(y = 0)
@user_offset = y
end
def draw
...
# start a new page or column
@pdf.bounds.move_past_bottom
if cell.row > 0 && @header
header_height = add_header(cells_this_page, @pdf.cursor - @user_offset, cell.row-1)
else
header_height = 0
end
offset = @pdf.y - cell.y - header_height - @user_offset
started_new_page_at_row = cell.row
...
end
end