7.0 trunk pdf report generation fails when company uses all address lines

[Eckhard Schwarzat]

How to replicate:

Settings > Companies > Companies 'General Info'

Enter a company address which uses all address lines (first and second line).

click on the 'Preview Header / Footer' button.

Result: pdf generation fails with error message (window pop-up) '... not enough space'.

This makes it impossible to generate any pdf report (for instance print a sales order).

Fix:

Settings > Companies > Companies 'Header / Footer'

Change to the RML code:
-------
RML Header
...
  <!-- page header -->
            <lines>1.3cm 27.7cm 20cm 27.7cm</lines>
            <drawRightString x="20cm" y="27.8cm">[[ company.rml_header1 ]]</drawRightString>
            <drawString x="1.3cm" y="27.4cm">[[ company.partner_id.name ]]</drawString>
            <place x="1.3cm" y="24.8cm" height="2.55cm" width="15.0cm">
                <para style="main_header">[[ display_address(company.partner_id) or '' ]]</para>
            </place>
            <drawString x="1.3cm" y="25.0cm">Phone:</drawString>
            <drawRightString x="7cm" y="25.0cm">[[ company.partner_id.phone or '' ]]</drawRightString>
            <drawString x="1.3cm" y="24.6cm">Mail:</drawString>
            <drawRightString x="7cm" y="24.6cm">[[ company.partner_id.email or '' ]]</drawRightString>
            <lines>1.3cm 24.5cm 7cm 24.5cm</lines>
....
------

error is provoked as long as <place x="1.3cm" y="25.8cm" height="1.55cm" width="15.0cm">
the height attribute is set to 1.55cm.

The additional y position changes were necessary to avoid 'line within line printing'

Best Regards,
Eckhard Schwarzat.

[Alan Lord (theopensourcerer)]

Am also seeing this on today's trunk. And in my Company details I am not using the second address line; it is empty.

[Alan Lord (theopensourcerer)]

The error report is rather unhelpful. I assumed that initially it was to with RAM, not physical space in the template.

Modifying the layout to suit the logo etc. fixes the problem, but I think this bug is more about an unhelpful error or suggestions on how to adjust the template header.

[Graham S (graham-s)]

This bug is over a year old and is still there in the latest release 7.0 downloaded yesterday from launchpad. Surely this bug effects everyone and who tries to generate a quote/order/invoice and wants to include their correct address why is it a low priority invoicing is funamental