PDF Email Problems Thread

ERPNext
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Thanks Umair,

I’m using V4. how do i upgrade to latest version.

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PDF generation takes a lot of processing power. What are your machine specs?

36

I have the same issue, have a prudction inviroment in version 6 in Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 and all work fine, wen i create a invoice the format of print preview see fine and when i generate the pdf file looks great, but when i use the send email feature thrall the tex is aligned on the left en the PDF file that i receive.

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We are having the same issues since Updating to v6!

Specifically, when we View the PREVIEW of a DOC (Sales Invoice for example), the preview appears perfect on-screen!

We can also press the PDF button and the Document Formatting is correct.

The issue appears to be related to EMAILING. When we press the EMAIL button, the attached PDF destroys the correct formatting of the PDF…

The ‘Word Around’ at the moment is to:

Press PDF
Manually save the PDF file locally
Open Outlook
Create a New Email
Attached the PDF
Send Email …

Whereas, we have become used to simply PREVIEWING the DOC onscreen to determine if it appears OK…IF it does (which it nearly always used to), we simply select, EMAIL and send it directly from there…

Specifically, the Customer Name, Address, Phones etc. are all listed on the TOP LEFT of the PDF…

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look into this as we need to perform 5 steps to fulfill what was a single click!

Kind regards,

RECiPHER GROUP Melbourne

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Hi Frappe Team,

Any news on the incorrect formatting of Emailed PDF’s since the upgrade to v6?

Unfortunately since the upgrade to v6, when we modify or create a Sales Invoice (and nearly all Documents from what we can tell) the appears correctly On Screen preview. The Document appears correct with our Logo and correct formatting, spacing, alignment etc.

Now however, whilst the preview still looks correct On Screen, when selecting Email, the attached PDF is dropping our Logo, Formatting, Spacing and Alignment.

As a result, we are having problems sending documents Directly from ERPNext. We now have to save the PDF file manually and then email it. Ironically, generating the PDF and saving it locally saves the correctly formatted PDF…

We really need to resolve this matter…please let us know how many others are experiencing this.

Regards,

RECiPHER GROUP - Melbourne

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Hi,

I got it solved after adding my site to site_config.json please follow the instructions in the below link and make sure to add a comma. This Link

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Just wanted to add; we too were able to resolve the issue of PDF alignment not being correct when Emailing.

The solution (as stated above) is to add a single line to site_config.json for the SPECIFIC site you need to amend.

Add the line:

“host_name”: “http://yourerpnextsite”

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Maybe i have a different issue, but as i have already stated in this thread when I add “hostname”: “http://yourerpnextsite” to the site_config.json both my print view and pdf work correctly only pdf attached to my email is effected and shows no images and messed up formating.

However when i change it to “host_name”: “http://yourerpnextsite” print view is ok and shows letterhead but pdf and email attached pdf are not working.

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Hello.

I’m having the same issues, haven’t been able to fix them.

Here is the actual PDF (what we would like to see):

Actual Template.png811×625 38 KB

Here is what we get, whenever I click the Print or PDF button, we get the wrong formatted version of the report.

Error Template.png499×645 49.7 KB

I’ve tried the solutions that are mentioned in this post, from changing my host_name with an IP and changing host_name to hostname on my site_config.json

Here’s my site_config.json:

Any input from the frappe team would be appreciated. We are on version (ERPNext) v6.27.25 and (Frappe) v6.27.24.

Thanks

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47

Same issue here,

tried with some of the propossed solutions but did not work

Any suggestion

Thank you

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this is weird, i followed all the available solutions, but i can’t seem to solve it.

I’m using Google cloud service. So the IP address that I put in should be the ip address of eth0 right?

I’ve tried inputting the public IP address of the server to no avail.

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Just put http://localhost,

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Hi All,
I have DNS based multi-tenant setup which is also experiencing issue with PDF view / email attachment images missing and layout not correct, however on one site it works correctly?

Below are site config files - note the working site does not contain the “host_name” : “” and is not the site in the currentsite.txt file.

  • The “host_name” configuration has been tested in a combination of the accessible URL / localhost / local IP / public IP and also with http / https - no success in any. Bench restarts also performed after each.
  • Newly created site’s have the issue.
  • Nothing in browser dev console indicating issue.
  • File permissions on image files are the same across all sites - Owner/Group ‘frappe’ with 644.
  • Frappe 7.0.30 and ERPNext 7.0.34
  • Standard or custom print format has issue

Are there others experiencing this using DNS based multi-tenant setup? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Working Site
{ "db_name": "-----", "db_password": "-----", "developer_mode": 1, "limits": { "space_usage": { "backup_size": 26.0, "database_size": 107.95, "files_size": 11.0, "total": 144.95 } }, "ssl_certificate": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/-----/fullchain.pem", "ssl_certificate_key": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/-----/privkey.pem" }

Site Not Working
{ "db_name": "------", "db_password": "------", "developer_mode": 1, "encryption_key": "-------", "limits": { "space_usage": { "backup_size": 6.0, "database_size": 10.02, "files_size": 3.0, "total": 19.02 } }, "ssl_certificate": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/-------/fullchain.pem", "ssl_certificate_key": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/-------/privkey.pem" }

Another Site Not Working
{ "db_name": "-----", "db_password": "-----", "ssl_certificate": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/-----/fullchain.pem", "ssl_certificate_key": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/-----/privkey.pem" }

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I updated my ERPNEXT to the lastest version, 7.1.0… and voila! it works!

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Can Frappe team confirm if there have been improvements in this area? Noted prior discussion on switching to jphantom - Replace wkhtmltopdf to phantomjs? - cannot see it as an enhancement against v7.1 though…

Unfortunately cannot simply upgrade given it is not stable release. Hopefully when the time comes it will resolve.

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HI,
I am still stack. Here is my .json file. What I missed please let me know.
{
“db_name”: “secret”,
“db_password”: “secret”,
“developer_mode”: 1,
“host_name”: “http://my.host.name”
}

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Hi,
Even after changing the json files with the above said addition of
“host_name”:“http://localhost:8080”, the pdf is losing its formatting when sending it via mail.
Is there any other solution?

Thanks and regards
Ajit

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pls try on “host_name”:“http://localhost:80”

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56

Hi,
Thanks, the formatting of the PDF is retained, but the font styles are lost.

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this works fine on VM hosted
thanks.