I was hoping to create a coverpage for my pdf but I can’t figure it out.
I have DOMPDF successfully creating my pdf. I wanted a coverpage that is full bleed, no footer (I used the Canvas to create a footer with page count).
I was able to get the footer to be removed, but I can’t figure out the margins.
In my css which is an external file, I can set
@page {
margin:0;
}
This makes the coverpage look great but it also removes margins from all the other pages. Which is not what I really want to happen. Is there a way to specify only the first page?
Looking through some other questions I noticed that you could call the current page via css. As an example:
.footer .page-number:after {
content: counter(page);
}
But I couldn’t get any action based on using counter(page) as a selector.
I looked into rendering 2 $html sets together to make 1 pdf but the DOMPDF notes say that’s not possible and could cause some rendering errors.
I’m using DOM 3.0.0 CPDF in a WordPress installation.
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CSS provides a :first pseudo class, that can be used in combination with a @page rule – and apparently dompdf supports it.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:first :
The
:firstCSS pseudo-class, used with the@pageat-rule, represents the first page of a printed document.
There’s a little caveat,
Note: You can’t change all CSS properties with this pseudo-class. You can only change the margins, orphans, widows, and page breaks of the document. Furthermore, you may only use absolute-length units when defining the margins. All other properties will be ignored.
– but that should not be relevant for your purpose, since you want to set different margins only.