yeah i think i'll go the variable route ultimately...
# advancedpdfa
al3xicon
02/02/2021, 6:13 PMyeah i think i'll go the variable route ultimately - gotta make sure i can detect the number of line breaks in it first
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ericbirdsall
02/02/2021, 7:53 PMThis is proving to be more difficult than I thought. Are you able to count the line breaks of a field>?
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al3xicon
02/02/2021, 7:56 PMi was - it's a textarea field i believe, so split on "<br />" and then used ?size to get the number, basically for each line in that field i am adding 1% point to the header height
al3xicon
02/02/2021, 7:56 PMnot perfect but it solves the immediate problem
al3xicon
02/02/2021, 7:57 PM Copy code
<#assign num_note_lines = record.custbody_inv_comments?split("<br />") />
<#assign num_breaks = num_note_lines?size />
<#assign header_height = 50 + (num_breaks * 1) />
<body header="nlheader" header-height="${header_height}%" footer="nlfooter" footer-height="20pt" padding="0.5in 0.5in 0.5in 0.5in" size="Letter">al3xicon
02/02/2021, 7:58 PMit did take me some trial and error to learn that it was
<br /><br>/r/ne
ericbirdsall
02/02/2021, 8:44 PMThis was* my exact struggle. I gave up after trying;
<br><br/>/r/n/r/nericbirdsall
02/02/2021, 8:50 PMI feel like that will help me greatly in the future
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al3xicon
02/02/2021, 9:03 PMhaha - go figure, glad i got lucky on my 4th try then
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