[Feature Request] Generate PDF in Landscape Orientation and Column Width Issues

[GlasierXplor]

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• Snipe-IT v5.1.8 build 6257 (gb5bb74b8c)
• OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Web Server: Apache
• PHP Version: 7.4.3

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When exporting Assets to a PDF, the generated PDF will always be in portrait, and all columns in fixed width (distributed evenly). All overflown text will be simply cut off. Especially when generating asset reports, some columns will have important information cut off.

Describe the solution you'd like While I think a lot can live with the fixed column widths, I think it will be really helpful if all PDF report generation will have it automatically in the landscape orientation, so that most (if not all) columns and their contents will be displayed in the output.

On a lower priority in my opinion, the columns could be set to auto-fit (between a minimum width and a maximum width value?). At the same time if possible, have text wrap over multiple rows in case the maximum width value has been reached.

Describe alternatives you've considered Alternatively, (through some searching) I think SnipeIT has some templates that the PDF export relies on? But I cannot find conclusive documentation/posts/issues regarding customising the PDF, or I could self-edit the PDF export function call (which I am hesitant to do so lest I break stuff).

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[snipe]

IIRC, that's handled via the bootstrap-tables JS export plugin. I'm not sure there's much we can do to configure that, but I'll look into it

[GlasierXplor]

Hi thanks for the information. I have clawed through the docs for the plugin you stated. The github page has the following example, which uses jsPDF as the backend, accepts orientation and auto-tables as parameters. Hopefully this helps (though I do understand it may not be an open-and-shut thing).

https://github.com/hhurz/tableExport.jquery.plugin

// PDF export using jsPDF only

$('#tableID').tableExport({type:'pdf',
                           jspdf: {orientation: 'p',
                                   margins: {left:20, top:10},
                                   autotable: false}
                          });

GitHub

GitHub - hhurz/tableExport.jquery.plugin: jQuery plugin to export a html table to JSON, XML, CSV, TSV, TXT, SQL, Word, Excel, PNG and PDF

jQuery plugin to export a html table to JSON, XML, CSV, TSV, TXT, SQL, Word, Excel, PNG and PDF - GitHub - hhurz/tableExport.jquery.plugin: jQuery plugin to export a html table to JSON, XML, CSV, T...