On 26th April 2022 jsreportonline will stop supporting the windows based rendering.
(This date could be shifted to the future if there will be a strong demand)
This action will change the pdf outputs if you use the old Windows-based rendering because Linux recipes produce different sizes.
Everyone who uses phantom-pdf or wkhtmltopdf recipe and in the template's properties has selected the windows based version.
jsreportonline displays the list of the affected templates in the modal every time you log in. This notice is present in the jsreportonline already for 2 years. If you don't persist the templates in the studio, but send the templates content in the API calls, please continue below.
Open your account in jsreportonline and notice the list of affected templates in the modal. Then clone the affected templates and either change the recipe to the chrome-pdf or select from the phantom pdf/phantomjs version respectively wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf version combo the version without -windows postfix. Then follow the migration hints below and test if the template works properly. If everything is fine, change the original template and remove the cloned template.
While keeping the same recipe and just switching to Linux version is easier for the migration, we strongly recommend investing time and migrating to the chrome-pdf recipe. This recipe is the best choice for pdf rendering. The phantomjs project is suspended and also wkhtmltopdf isn't actively developed and we may stop supporting them in the future completely (although it isn't currently planned).
The sizing of the elements when switching the recipe or platform changes. Therefore you need to manually review the templates and adapt the changes for your exact needs. The following hints should get you close to the original windows based outputs.
<style>
body { zoom: 0.8; }
</style>
Additionally, chrome doesn't properly handle the border-spacing: collapse style. Please see the workaround in the troubleshooting section.
add the following style:
<style>
body { zoom: 0.75 };
</style>
The Linux phantomjs has problems with OpenSSL and may not be able to load external styles or scripts from CDN linked through https. In this case, you need to change the URL referencing them to use plain http.
add the following style:
<style>
body { zoom: 0.8 };
</style>
The templates that aren't persisted but sent through the API uses windows based rendering in case you explicitly set the windows version or your jsreportonline account was created before 18th September 2016.
You can find out if your API calls use the phantom-pdf windows version if you open jsreportonline studio at the startup page. Then open the logs from the "Last requests" section. Then you determine if the template runs on windows when the logs contain the line Delegating recipe phantom-pdf to windows worker.
It's recommended to migrate to the chrome-pdf recipe, however, if you want to just switch to the Linux phantomjs and test the results, you can explicitly set the phantomjs version like this:
{
"template": {
"content": "hello world",
"engine": "handlebars",
"recipe": "phantom-pdf",
"phantom": {
"phantomjsVersion": "1.9.1"
}
}
}
We will automatically switch your templates using windows based phantomjs (wkhtmltopdf) to Linux and automatically add the zoom style to at least reduce the visual changes in the pdf.
We appologize for this inconvenience. We stalled this for many years, but now we need to move forward. On the bright side, you may soon look forward to the big jsreportonline update adding support for the jsreport v3 features. Including the support for using custom npm modules!
Please don't hesitate to reach us at support@jsreport.net We will do our best to help you with the transition.