Issue with Fixed Table Layout in HTML to PDF Conversion
Problem reported by Huang Shao Ting - 6/24/2026 at 10:27 PM
Resolved
Hi GleamTech Support Team,

We are encountering an issue with GleamTech’s HTML to PDF conversion where fixed table layouts are not being preserved correctly.
In our HTML, the table is defined with table-layout: fixed, and each column has an explicit width set. However, after conversion to PDF, the fixed column widths appear to be dropped, and the table is rendered with flexible column widths instead. This causes the output PDF layout to differ from the expected result.

As a temporary workaround, we implemented the following process:
  1. Convert the HTML to DOCX
  2. Edit the tables using POI
  3. Remove tabGrid and add tblLayout to tblPr
  4. Convert the DOCX to PDF
This workaround produces the expected layout, but we would prefer for GleamTech’s HTML to PDF conversion to preserve the original table layout attributes correctly.

Could you please investigate this issue and advise whether this can be fixed in the converter? It would be greatly appreciated if you could look into this.

Thank you.

Product Version: DocumentUltimate v8.1.0
Cem Alacayir Replied
Employee Post Marked As Resolution

FYI, this issue is now fixed: 

Version 8.2.5 - June 29, 2026

  • Fixed: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object. error when viewing certain PDF documents.
     For example, some PDF/UA documents (e.g. canva produced PDFs) caused this error.


  • Fixed: When viewing/converting a email .msg file with TNEF attachments (winmail.dat), some attachments were not visible.
     For example .pdf attachment was visible but .tiff attachment was not because .tiff was wrongly considered an inline attachment
     (although it was not referenced inside html body).


  • Fixed: When viewing/converting a .html file (or an email format), tables defined with table-layout: fixed lost column widths
     so the table was rendered unexpectedly (e.g. some columns were too narrow).

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