How the plugin scales elements to the PDF page
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The below video tutorial demonstrates how the PDF Creator plugin scales elements from the Bubble canvas onto the PDF (relevant section is from 07:35):
The PDF Creator plugin takes the CSS style associated with the target element and uses this to decide on the width/height of the element on the PDF.
For example, the width of the group highlighted below is 0px (min) to inf (max):
This means the PDF Creator will take the 'inf' value and attempt to take up as much space on the PDF as possible. If we set all margins to 0, the target element will take up the full width of the PDF (I've adjusted the background color of the target element to make this obvious):
If we add a right and left margin of 20px (in the Generate PDF Creator action), we'll be able to see this in the output PDF.
The size of the PDF page will depend on which format you choose. You can view the sizes of the various formats (in px) by clicking on the 'show documentation' button underneath the 'Format' field:
For example, a4 pages are 794px wide. Therefore, if we set the max width of our target element to 700px (with no margins), it will take up MOST of the width of the PDF:
If you set the minimum width of the target element to be greater than the width of the PDF page, your target element will 'spill out' over the edge of the page.
In this example, we're setting the min width of our target element to 900px:
Which results in not all of the target element being visible in the PDF:
