Solved: Converting HTML to PDF - some content not converti...

ThenewThom · ‎05-18-2022

Hello - the html text shown below in red is making it through a power automate process to the html stage OK but the conversion to pdf (One drive for Business - convert to pdf) doesn't seem to be picking it up. I have attached the two outputs (html and pdf) to show the missing content. Any advice gratefully received. Cheers. Thom

// This is HTML that sends to flow to generate the PDF file.
"<html>" & "<head>
<H1>ME Detail report: " & ddPlanName_1.Selected.Result & " - " & ddDate.Selected.Value & "</H1>
<p>" & HtmlExecutiveSumm.HtmlText & " </p><br>
<p>" & HtmlKPIDecline.HtmlText & " </p><br>
<p>" & HtmlSocCult.HtmlText & " </p>
<style>
a { color: blue; }
body { text-align: centre; }
h1 { color: green; }
table.one { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 10px; }
table.two { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 10px; }
table, td, th { border: 1px solid; border-color: lightgray; vertical-align: text-top}
td.content{ padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
span { color: white; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; font-size: 80%; }
</style>
</head>" & "<body>" &
// Strategies - First Table etc

WarrenBelz · ‎05-20-2022

Hi @ThenewThom ,

So this is now solved?

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WarrenBelz · ‎05-18-2022

Hi @ThenewThom ,

The OneDrive PDF converter is not a "full blown" HTML resolver and things like CSS Styles often do not translate. I keep my HTML on these to fairly simple basic tags (table structure and colours, font bold, italic, underline etc) which generally do the job I need.

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ThenewThom · ‎05-19-2022

Hi Warren - thanks for responding. That's the part that's difficult to follow - the style applying to the tables works perfectly. It's the basic stuff (the <p> tags) that isn't going through. Cheers, Thom

WarrenBelz · ‎05-19-2022

Hi @ThenewThom ,

The other thing I forgot to mention is that the OneDrive converter is far less forgiving on structure inconsistencies such as the lack of closing tags. I have tested code that resolves perfectly in a Power Apps HTML control, but if the tags are not strictly correct gets unexpected results in the PDF like yours.

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ThenewThom · ‎05-19-2022

Thanks Warren - it was a problem with the label I used - the conversion handled .text with the html as a resolved output (rich text style) but I was feeding it html that included the filtering codes etc. Oh well, is working now

WarrenBelz · ‎05-20-2022

Hi @ThenewThom ,

So this is now solved?

Converting HTML to PDF - some content not converting

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