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    Posted by seb  · 12-09-2013 - 16:18

    Hi Guys,



    Congratulations on the new release - excellent set of features and some great bug fixes.



     



    Unfortunately v3.5 (and v3.3) seem to have introduced a lot of extra padding/paragraph/line-spacing comapred to version 3.1. This is most noticeable in the footer when using a docx template for a new docx - please see the image below:



     





     



    Is there any setting I can make when creating the docx to remove or reset this extra padding/spacing? Here is the basic template I create my documents from: http://litesitev2.propserver7.com/header_footer.docx



     



    Thank you very much for your help!



    Seb


    Posted by jorgelj  · 12-09-2013 - 18:10

    Hello,



    Could you attach the final document?



    Regards.


    Posted by seb  · 17-09-2013 - 17:32

    Yes of course, I'd be happy to. I've attached the same document produced in PHPDOCX Pro 3.1 and 3.5 using exactly the same code. It seems like the paragraph spacing is larger by default in v3.5, and this can most clearly be seen in the footer around the page number.



    v3.1 Normal padding: http://litesitev2.propserver7.com/padding_example_v3_1.docx



    v3.5 Extra padding: http://litesitev2.propserver7.com/padding_example_v3_5.docx



    Is there a setting/parameter I'm missing?



    Many thanks for your help guys.



    Seb


    Posted by admin-phpdocx  · 17-09-2013 - 18:04

    The defaults have changed but you can control all spacing and line heights with the corersponding options of the addText method (or embedHTML method via CSS).



    Could you send us the code so we see how you generated the footer and do some testing?


    Posted by seb  · 18-09-2013 - 14:55

    Hello again,



    Please download my basic example here: http://litesitev2.propserver7.com/make_docx.zip



    If you generate the DOCX with v3.1 and v3.5, you'll see the line/paragraph spacing is different and this is affecting the footer as well as the document's body text. In v3.1 all the text fits on one page. In v3.5 the text spills over on to two pages, and the footer appears stretched vertically.



    Thank you so much guys for looking in to this. If there is a configuration change I can make to force v3.5 to look the same as v3.1 that would be great.



    Kind Regards,



    Seb


    Posted by seb  · 25-09-2013 - 12:37

    There are some base template files in phpdocx/templates which you need to remove all paragraph spacing from. Backup your existing files at:



     




    • phpdocxBaseTemplate.docx

    • phpdocxBaseTemplateNumberedHeadings.docx



     



    Then save them with no paragraph spacing. All problems sorted for me after this.