<pdf:pagenumber> and <pdf:pagecount> causes page number to be printed twice

[commx]

I have strange issues with the above tags inside html templates.

Let's say I have <div id="footer_pagenumber">Page <pdf:pagenumber/></div> then the page number is printed twice (11 instead of 1). If I add a single whitespace after the <pdf:pagenumber/> tag, the number is fine. The same problem applies to <pdf:pagecount/>.

Another issue is with <pdf:pagecount/> is that if I use this tag, the background image of my PDF is not rendered anymore.

Tested with xhtml2pdf v0.0.5, reportlab 2.7 and Pillow 2.0.0.

[machineghost]

+1

[bhosleabhimanyu]

+1
Is there a easy in which we can accelerate the development of the project?

[tomwalters]

+1 (or +11)

[felikjunvianto]

+1, experienced the same thing. Is there any way we can help to fix it?

[maoaiz]

+1 I have the same problem with the pdf:pagecount tag. It's show 11 instead of 1, or 22 instead of 2.

[johnfraney]

+1. Tested with xhtml2pdf 0.0.6 and reportlab 2.7. The issue occurs with <pdf:pagenumber> also.

[pavlix]

I also experience it but I found a workaround. It was good enough to put one space just after the tag, i.e. change --<pdf:pagenumber>-- to --<pdf:pagenumber> -- (double hypen is there to make the space visible).

[w-]

+11

[citizen-stig]

+1

[benjaoming]

To anyone bothered by this issue and thinking it's very old, silly and simple, yet no one is solving it, proving that this project is abandoned: NO!

Please feel encouraged to resolve the issue in the develop branch, your improvements shall be noted, merged and released! This project is far from dead, and has had both issues fixed and new features implemented recently. However the community-led idea will only take flight when people step up, and we need that for a 0.1 release to happen within the next months :)

[w-]

I looked through the code but don't really understand where the issue might be taking place.
I imagine it is probably here, but not sure as I don't understand what is going on
https://github.com/xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf/blob/master/xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf_reportlab.py#L269

[boevgeny]

my test case, "Page 1 of 5":

code: <div id="header">Page <pdf:pagenumber> of <pdf:pagecount></div>
result: Page 1 of 55
code: <div id="header">Page <pdf:pagenumber></div>
result: Page 11

but there is a solution:
code: <div id="header">Page <pdf:pagenumber> of <pdf:pagecount> </div>
result: Page 1 of 5
and
code: <div id="header">Page <pdf:pagenumber> </div>
result: Page 1

[alfonso-feria]

Un parche que soluciona, pero no es la manera correcta, es ocultar el segundo pdf:pagecount, ya que por lo visto el ultimo se esta repitiendo dando como resultado 1 de N

Página <pdf:pagenumber> de <pdf:pagecount> <pdf:pagecount style='display:none'>

[marioguima]

to "correct" just put  
  => this is the encode space
<pdf:pagenumber> of <pdf:pagecount>&nbsp;

[haruanm]

I have the same issues.
The the space after the pagecount does not fix the background issue.
I'm using python 3.8 with xhtml2pdf 0.2.5

[CaetanoGS]

I downgrade the library version and it worked for me.

I was using xhtml2pdf==0.2.5 and now I am using xhtml2pdf==0.2.3

[Dean-Christian-Armada]

I was able to fix by adding a new line like

<div id="footer_content">(c) - <pdf:pagenumber>
    </div>

It was stated on the document https://xhtml2pdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/format_html.html#example-with-2-static-frames-and-1-content-frame

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[michal-stachura]

+1
Adding white space solve problem

[felikjunvianto]

@luisza thank you for picking up this old issue!

[w-]

unbelievable. i never thought i would see the day.
and for the fix to be so succint.

i no longer use this library but thx @JanEgner