Page Break - Margin

[georak]

Hello all,

I have one div with dynamic content which may need more than 1 page to be displayed. Is there any way to add margin top on the second page only (without using ->margins())

[ArielMejiaDev]

Hi @georak I think that in blade files you can use $loop->index variable to identify the paragraph and apply the page break directive, I suggest to first format the content using a view presenter and then pass it to a blade view, it could make it more easy to handle.

eg:

class YourDocumentViewPresenter
{
    public Collection $pages;

    public function __construct($text)
    {
        $linesArray = explode("\n", $text);

        $linesCollection = collect($linesArray);
        
        $this->pages = $linesCollection->chunk(4);
    }
}

In your controller you should be able to use the view presenter like this:

$text = "This is the first line.\nThis is the second line.\nAnd here goes the third line.";

$content = new YourDocumentViewPresenter($text);

return pdf('your-pdf', $content->pages);

Then in your blade file you should be able to do something like:

@foreach($pages as $page)
    @if($loop->index % 4 == 0)
        @pageBreak
    @endif 
    {{ $page }}
@endforeach

With this code you are using a view presenter to transform a text into a collection and then chunk it by groups of 4 (to set a paragraphs that looks like a safe amount of text per paragraph).

Then it loops in a blade file and as the paragraphs used are 4 per page (a safe number of paragraphs per page) you can print the directive to page break if the loop index residual of 4 is equal to zero.

Take in mind

You can go a little bit further and check the amount of strings per line or per paragraph in the view presenter, I just set a good example but you can set it as granular as you need.

Hope it helps