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15 hours 40 minutes ago #273207 by holch
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I am trying to implement a digital signature process for participating in research. 

So I have a confidentiality agreement, where I have a long text, formatted in a "text display" questions. 
I ask for a couple of personal data (Name, ID number, City, Email, Telephone) and at the end I use the "Signature Pad" question theme for them to sign.

Then I use the PDFReport plugin to create a PDF that displays the confidentiality agreement first via {term.question} then a couple of the data collected and then the signature as an image. So far, it works perfect.

However, the created PDF is weird. Normal text is tiny, really tiny. And headers are huge, really huge. Everything is disproportionate. And if you use html lists, the text on the second line overwrites the first line.

First I thought the report tries to fit everything from one question onto one page, so I split the "term" into 3 text display questions. No change.

Does anyone have any tips on how to get the PDF formatted more "normal" and how to solve the issue with lists?

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15 hours 32 minutes ago #273208 by holch
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Here to illustrate what I mean:
 

So the first red marker shows an example of how for html lists the list items seem to use just one line and just write over previous lines.

The second marker shows where I tried to solve this problem with a table. However, the table distributes the columns 50%, which makes it look weird.

Overall, if the normal text would be a little bigger (in the actual PDF it is more or less readable) and the List items would work better, this would be a very good solution. Because the inclusion of the image created by the signature pad works pretty good, just the formatting of the text is horrible. I mean, I can probably use it, but it doesn't look very professional.

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14 hours 59 minutes ago #273209 by holch
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I might have found a solution. Originally the font sizes were in px. I changed it to pt and the fonts look more reasonable. I also got read of the headers and formatted them "by hand".

I got rid of all the ULs and OLs in HTML and just formatted them differently. Looks a lot better now.

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14 hours 35 minutes ago #273210 by holch
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No I just need to find out how to get rid of the huge title which is the survey title.

Rest is acceptable.

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