Customize Magento PDF Layout

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The problem is that the chosen font family does not support the Cyrillic characters. So far no font with Cyrillic support is included into the Advanced Invoice Layout Extension. That means that you have to get your own font family with support for Cyrillic characters and include it into the Advanced Invoice Layout Extension.

Please also see my FAQ article about adding a new font.

If you are using our Advanced Invoice Layout Extension with the DHL Extension Dhl_LocationFinder it may happen that if you have added the post number in the shipping address with the variable

{{var dhl_post_number}}

you will see the following output on the PDF invoice or shipment document:
Postnumber: Postnumber: Postnumber: Postnumber: Postnumber: Postnumber: Postnumber: Postnumber: 32403197

This issue happens due to a small bug in the DHL Extension that listens to the Magento event customer_address_format and adds the "Postnumber: " prefix. But as this event can occur multiple times (as it will within the Advanced Invoice Layout extension) the prefix is also added multiple times.

As this is not the desired behaviour you can patch the method Dhl_LocationFinder_Model_Observer::addPostNumberLabel() to only add the prefix once:

public function addPostNumberLabel(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
    {
        $address = $observer->getData('address');
        $postNumberLabel = Mage::helper('dhl_locationfinder/data')->__('Postnumber: ');
        if ($address->getData('dhl_post_number') && strpos($address->getData('dhl_post_number'), $postNumberLabel) === false) {
            $postNumberString = $postNumberLabel . $address->getData('dhl_post_number');
            $address->setData('dhl_post_number', $postNumberString);
        }
    }

Please note that this was tested with Dhl_LocationFinder extension version 1.0.3.

There may be circumstances where you need the base64-encoded value of one of the PDF documents in Magento 2 like creditmemo, e.g. for sending it other 3rd-party systems.

This can easily be achieved with the following sample code. This code assumes that you have \Vianetz\AdvancedInvoiceLayout\Model\PdfManager $pdfManager and e.g. \Magento\Sales\Api\CreditmemoRepositoryInterface $creditmemoRepository available, for example via Constructor Dependency Injection or as shown by direct Magento 2 Object Manager creation.

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();

$pdfManager = $objectManager->create('Vianetz\AdvancedInvoiceLayout\Model\PdfManager');
$creditmemo = $objectManager->create('Magento\Sales\Api\CreditmemoRepositoryInterface')->get($creditmemoId);

$pdfManager->addSource($creditmemo);

// output the base64-encoded value
echo base64_encode($this->pdfManager->getPdf()->getContents());

This code uses parts of my PDF API for Magento.

Since Magento 1.5 the address format can be configured under System › Configuration › Customer Configuration › Address Templates › PDF. Newlines are marked as pipes (|).

Following a sample for a AdvancedInvoiceLayout tax configuration that many of our German shop owners use (based on Magento 1.7.x):

• System › Configuration › Advanced Invoice Layout › General › Tax Display: Including Tax
• System › Configuration › Tax › Orders, Invoices, Credit Memos Display Settings › Include Tax In Grand Total: Yes
• System › Configuration › Tax › Orders, Invoices, Credit Memos Display Settings › Display Full Tax Summary: Yes
  (if this is set to "No" tax is not splitted into percent classes)

With our Advanced Invoice Layout Extension for Magento you can easily create store view specific layouts, texts, logos or colors. Therefore you can easily change the store view switcher on the Advanced Invoice Layout configuration page in the Magento backend.

If you want further more layout customizations to the HTML files there are 2 possibilities:

• If you use already different Magento themes you can easily do the customizations in the appropriate theme folder. I.e. you just do the customizations e.g. in app/design/frontend/theme1/default/advancedinvoicelayout and app/design/frontend/theme2/default/advancedinvoicelayout.
• Additionally there is the possibility (e.g. if you use the same theme for both store views) to create own themes in the Advanced Invoice Layout Extension.

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If you use the Magento Extension M2EPro you can easily display the Amazon Order Id on the Magento PDF invoice with our Advanced Invoice Layout Extension with the following code:

echo Mage::helper('M2ePro/Component_Amazon')->getModel('Order')
->load($this->getOrder()->getId(), 'magento_order_id')
->getChildObject()->getAmazonOrderId();

You can find more information in our FAQ on how to customize the templates.

A page break can be forced in the invoice PDF by adding an HTML element with the CSS class pageBreak.

If you use our extension Advanced Invoice Layout for Magento it is very easy to move the logo on the PDF documents (invoice/shipment/creditmemo) to the left or right. Just enter the following CSS snippet into System › Configuration › Advanced Invoice Layout › Custom CSS to move the logo to the left:

#header #storeLogo { text-align: left; }

With our Advanced Invoice Layout Extension for Magento it is very easy to print barcodes of any code on the Magento PDF invoice, shipment or creditmemo.
All you have to do is to choose a font family that supports your desired barcode format and use that in the Advanced Invoice Layout CSS file for printing the barcode. Voilà!

Our Advanced Invoice Layout Extension for Magento allows you to have customer group specific texts on the PDF invoice document.
Therefore on the customer group configuration page in the Magento admin panel there is an additional text field where you can enter HTML-text that will be displayed on PDF invoices if the customer is contained in that customer group.

The automatic group assignment is a standard Magento feature which is explained in more detail in the Magento Documentation.

Go to System › Manage AITOC Modules, click on link "Manage Class Rewrites" and scroll down to the text field "Indicate names of all base Magento classes, that you wouldn't like to overwrite" and add the value Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Pdf_Invoice there.

If you use our Advanced Invoice Layout extension for Magento 1 and you want to migrate your shop to Magento 2, there are a few simple steps to make the invoice, packing slips and creditmemo PDF look nice:

• Purchase the Advanced Invoice Layout extension for Magento 2
• Copy all your template files from the Magento 1 extension from app/design/frontend/base/default/template/advancedinvoicelayout to the Magento 2 extension in view/base/templates/
• Copy all the CSS files from Magento 1 from skin/frontend/base/default/advancedinvoicelayout to the Magento 2 extension in view/base/web/
• Replace all occurrences of $this->__( .. %s .. ) with $this->__( .. %1 .. )

Printing the telephone number of the customer on the Magento pdf invoice, shipment or creditmemo is very easy with our Advanced Invoice Layout Extension.

All you have to do is go to System › Configuration › Customer Configuration › Address Templates and in the field Advanced Invoice Layout PDFs add the following variable:

{{var telephone}}

This field accepts HTML source code, i.e. you can add line breaks (<br>) or plain text as you like.

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