John Davidson

<?php



// add a new page

$this->AddPage();

  

// disable existing columns

$this->resetColumns();

  

// set columns

$this->setEqualColumns( 4, 40 );

  

// set font

$this->SetFont( 'helvetica', '', 7 );

  

// write content

$this->writeHTML( $footnotes_content, true, false, true, true, 'L' );

  

?>

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My Answer:
One possible solution to this issue is to manually add an indent to the content that is being written to the columns. You can do this by adding a non-breaking space character at the beginning of each line in the content. This will force TCPDF to treat the first line as if it has an indent, which should prevent the negative indent issue from occurring.

Here is an example of how you can modify your code to add a non-breaking space character at the beginning of each line in the content:

php

// add a new page
$this->AddPage();

// disable existing columns
$this->resetColumns();

// set columns
$this->setEqualColumns( 4, 40 );

// set font
$this->SetFont( 'helvetica', '', 7 );

// add non-breaking space character to prevent negative indent
$footnotes_content = preg_replace('/^/m', ' ', $footnotes_content);

// write content
$this->writeHTML( $footnotes_content, true, false, true, true, 'L' );

?>


By adding the non-breaking space character at the beginning of each line in the content, you should be able to prevent the negative indent issue from occurring in TCPDF.