Problem PDF templates from version 7.13.2 to version 8

Hello, I am upgrading from version 7.13.2 to version 8 and I have a big problem with PDFs. I’ve done a lot of work to create 70 PDF templates and now they are all out of order. Is there any possibility of recovering them? Is there any possibility of finding out what has changed, so I can see what I can do to modify the templates?

if needed, I can send you the 2 PDFs, one generated by version 7 and one by version 8.

Thanks Massimo

Search these forums for posts detailing the (forced by licensing issues) transition from mPDF to TCPDF.

I can’t get decent results with TCPDF, anything involving tables gets $#%#$ up.

I think there is some way to tell SuiteCRM to keep using mPDF as a legacy PDF engine, that’s likely your best option if you have so many PDFs already developed and fine-tuned…

In the near future my PowerReplacer addons are coming to v8 and this will be a game-changer in terms of reports and PDF generation.

Maybe by setting pdf engine in the config.php file.

 'pdf' => 
  array (
    'defaultEngine' => 'TCPDFEngine',
  ),

is exactly what I did when we upgraded to php7.4, back then it was possible because the library was obsolete but still compatible.
The new versions of php 8.x have broken compatibility and so it is not really possible to use it

Yeah, you’re correct. I think that I read something related to it on this forum. 8.x versions only support TCPDF PDF engine.