[Vtigercrm-developers] vTiger 5.4 RC, customizing PDF layout

[John Crisp]

On 15/04/12 10:29, Markus Miedaner wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm new at the vTiger development but I think I'll be a little bit more present in this scene from now on. I'll try to adjust the layout of the Quote and Invoice PDF's.
>
> I found the Wiki entry which lists some files where you can adjust parameters like the header etc. But unfortunately it didn't work anymore with 5.4? I started to modify the header (modules/Quotes/pdf_templates/header.php) but nothing changed. Then I deleted the complete modules/Quotes/pdf_templates directory but the "Export to PDF" still works really fine.
>
> I found out that I can change the layout of the ship and billing addresses in the file include/InventoryPDFController.php which is not mentioned in the wiki.
>
> Can you please give me a short hint or a summary where the relevant content for customizing the PDF layout is? Is fpdf still used for 5.4 RC? Then I save lots of hours reverse engineering...
>
> The actual Quote and Invoice Layout is not the best for german customers. The main goal is to customize vtiger for a specific german industrial branch, because this is a bigger project I want to work with 5.4 RC!
>
> Thanks for your help to make my first steps more easy in advance!
>

I suggest you start looking here :

https://wiki.vtiger.com/index.php/Developers

You will notice a link to the the PDF library here :

https://wiki.vtiger.com/index.php/520:PDF_Library

I believe is is the same for 5.4.x

That should really be your starting point.

B. Rgds
John