Wicked_pdf: Tiny border on the bottom of generated pdf

[vladimeeer]

Hi there,
I have setup no borders for pdf layout. There is still tiny white border on the bottom of every page of document. Do you know a work around how to set properly layout to have borderless pdf document?

Specification:
A6, image background, html layout - height: 1746px, width: 2490px.

I have tried to change height and width of layout various times. I could make it
generate pdf without tiny border either on the bottom or on right side of page after resizing layout.

Thanks.
Vlad

[unixmonkey]

A white border? Are you trying to do full bleed printing - edge to edge color?

Maybe these links will help:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6057781/wkhtmltopdf-with-full-page-background
https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=359

[vladimeeer]

Yes. That's what I am looking for.

Thanks.

On Jun 9, 2013, at 12:00 AM, David Jones wrote:

A white border? Are you trying to do full bleed printing - edge to edge color?

Maybe these links will help:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6057781/wkhtmltopdf-with-full-page-background
https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=359

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[joaovpmamede]

Any luck with this?

I tried to test a full bleed printing and no matter the css I use I always get some margin/border of 4px on bottom and 1 or 2 on the left.

[gregblass]

I'm experiencing this too. Small white border on the bottom of the page. Makes full page PDF's impossible. One of the links above is dead and the other offers no solutions.

Wondering why is this closed?

[unixmonkey]

There seems to be many solutions in the linked StackOverflow post here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6057781/wkhtmltopdf-with-full-page-background

Do any of these work for you?

[gregblass]

No, none of those do anything. And even more importantly, those are all hacks and not getting to the root of the problem.

[unixmonkey]

I don't think setting all margins to zero and making sure CSS isn't adding whitespace, or adding a little page bleed with zoom are hacks.

The real hack is that do do this, wkhtmltopdf spins up a virtual web browser to render your content and basically does a print-to-pdf on it. That's a huge hack, and I'm quite thankful for it :smiley:

Are you certain there isn't something adding padding or margin to the outer bounds of your document? Are you sure your document is tall enough in pixels that it fills the screen all the way to the bottom of the page?

[gregblass]

First, thanks for taking time to help here. Trust me, I am thankful for every level of the tech stack that allows me to write software! I do think there is something going on here.

I am fairly certain that nothing in my setup is adding this. All of my margins are set to zero (in wkhtmltopdf/wickedpdf), in CSS (body { margin: 0; padding: 0;}. Zoom does nothing; the white line is still there.

I have a background image that is covering the entire page. It was slightly too tall for A1, and it spilled over - BUT with a small white line on the bottom (maybe a couple of pixels).

Then I made the image exactly the right aspect ratio - and it will actually put a ~4 pixel white border on the bottom of the page, and then extend the image 4 pixels onto the next page.

[jerefrer]

@gregblass I think your issue is related to this one.

I just encountered the same problem on a portrait PDF: I had a thin white border on the right side of the PDF.
I was already setting all margins to 0 but, inspired by @sdwolf, it magically worked when I added --page-height 297mm --page-width 212mm.

@unixmonkey I agree these are not hack at all, but I think what we're discussing here might actually be a bug. Why would we want this white border by default ?

[unixmonkey]

Thanks for the workable solution. I don't know why there's such a small difference, or whether it's an issue with wkhtmltopdf or with webkit in general.

[jerefrer]

@unixmonkey Sorry I thought we were in wkhtmltopdf's issues. My bad. I just posted a new issue there.

[heraldsuva]

I am getting the same issue also, seems like the tiny white border is set by default on each corner, any solutions yet? I need that border removed.

[elcortez]

Hello, has anyone solved this issue?

[unixmonkey]

Did you try specifying the page height and page width as shown above?

[elcortez]

Yes, but it's weird, I set all margins to 0 and set page height in options, but I still get a very tiny margin. I'll keep looking, thanks!

[doup]

Same problem here, it happens with 11x8.5in but if we change to another size it gets fixed. We're using the following arguments: L, R, T, B, page-width, page-height, zoom, dpi.

In this example the content it's bigger than intented, but if we fit the content to the page size we still get the same result. It's interesting to note that on the other borders (T, L, R) the color arrives to the edge.