Why is there a left and top padding in a cell using TCPDF in php?

Question

I am printing a cell using the TCPDF(http://www.tcdf.org/) class in php. The cell should be placed into the top left corner.

Everything works great, except that a le

Answer 1

If I'm not mistaken, that it is not padding, but space for letters which extend below the baseline (e.g. "g"), accents, subscripts and superscripts.

I tried your code with some accented letters in the text. This is the result:

Relevant:
- Baseline (typography)
- Subscript & Superscript

Answer 2

On an additional note, you can decrease the height of the cell by passing TRUE for the ignoreMinHeight parameter in the Cell function.