Cannot create multipage PDF

[Anonymous]

I have too much data to fit on one single page of a PDF and I'm not willing to decrease the font size.

I have need to send this PDF, which is made from user data entered into an MS Forms form, via email to the author of the Form response.

I can get almost all of the data I need on the PDF, but I cannot make the PDF more than 1 page long. It cuts off the data in the current form.

Help.

[MarvinBangert · Accepted solution]

Hey @Anonymous 

you can create an HTML file with your dynamic values first. Create this file in your OneDrive for Business as a temporary file. Then use the OneDrive for Business action "Convert file using path" and turn the HTML to PDF. Afterwards Send an email with an attachment the converted content:

Best regards
Marvin

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[Anonymous]

Marvin,

I come back to you with woes.

I attempted everything you had laid out, even going to far as to see if the data I was using was bunk. Instead I had used some Lorem Ipsum to see if maybe, just maybe, my data had been set out wrong.

I've poured over my HTML tags, they seem to be correct. Is there something I'm doing wrong to cause the PDF to break into several pages? I can only get my flow to spit out just the one page, data appended.

****EDIT

Using only one <p> paragraph tag I can cause my flow to spit out two pages of almost non formatted text.

Using several <p> tags, I can get several spaced paragraphs with appropriate carriage returns.

I took my Lorem Ipsum test and stuck it above my legitimate test data from my proper Form. My Lorem Ipsum causes the PDF to stretch into 3 pages, however, at the bottom of the third page is all of my data. Most of which was turned into useless data strings, "...r592c3c66403341dbb..." this may be useful to a computer, but you can see how little value it has for a human...

I realize I must be doing something wrong for my data to return to me in coded strings. However, I cannot for the life of me begin to understand what I am doing so wrongly for my PDF to not stretch into several pages, at all, when there is sufficient (lengthwise) data.

*******EDIT 2:

Tirelessly, I beat this problem back into a corner from which I think I can begin to leverage some insight. The <caption> tags are not being handled correctly, by whatever means or mechanism, and are causing the MS Forms data to stop being formatted/written into the PDF document. I've come to this conclusion by removing every instance of <caption></caption> and replacing it for another tag that has been shown to successfuly make changes to the data format. Instead of <caption> I am now using <h> tags to organize my Statement/Response data.

Now my PDF prints multiple pages of data. Aaaarg this was frustrating!!

**********Thank you, Marvin!!! You're a genius!

Your guidance is deeply appreciated, Marvin.

Thank you,

Jakson