Custom header not showing on PDF

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Custom header not showing on PDF

hanspumpel

Hi there and first of all thank you so much for this great project.

On RosarioSIS 8.9.1 On a Debian LAPP stack, the generation of PDF works fine, but they don't show my custom header and /or footer.
I've activated the plug-in and defined my header in the plug-in configuration. All of that works fine, but when I generate a PDF, nothing shows.
It doesn't matter if I generate a student billing report as Admin or a report card as teacher.
Please advise me what I'm doing wrong.

francoisjacquet

Hello hanspumpel

You probably have to tweak the Top Margin (mm) config option.

In case your header content is taller than the margin, it won't get cut off, but is simply not displayed.
Try first with a single text line header, hit "Print" and check if this line shows up.

hanspumpel

Thank you for your quick response.
Your answer seems logical, of course, but did not help me.
The change in the margins are reflected nicely in the PDF, but still no text shows.
Neither the amount of text entered, nor the layout, make any difference.
Sadly, I can't find a way to include screenshots in my post.

francoisjacquet

Hello hanspumpel

The debug would go like this:
Try generating a PDF with a header from the command line.
If this does not work, then the error lies in wkhtmltopdf.
If this does work, then the error lies either in RosarioSIS or in between RosarioSIS and wkhtmltopdf.
If you need help with that, you can subscribe to the maintenance contract at https://www.rosariosis.org/services/ (contracts are commitment-free).

Cheers!

--Edit--
You can upload screenshots using https://upload-image.rosariosis.org/

hanspumpel

I have finally solved this issue too.
It turned out that the wkhtmltopdf package, shipped with Ubuntu, doesn't have header / footer support compiled into it.
Removing the default version and installing the static DEB from the project's git solved the problem. The header and footer are now rendered properly.