How do I create a new line in a pdf document?

Question

Hello,
What I am doing is taking a compilation of information from multiple tables, displaying it in a textarea, allowing a user to change the information that is present in the text area if they wish, and then allowing them to create a pdf file. I am able to do everything except that when the pdf file is created, there is no new like created when the pdf doc is created. I can display multiple lines by using:
<textarea name="all_content" cols="100" rows="30"><?php
        echo $row_getAllCont['first_name'].' '.$row_getAllCont['last_name']."\n";
        echo $row_getAllCont['email'];
        ?></textarea>
<?php $_POST['all_content'] = nl2br($_POST['all_content']); ?>
Then create the pdf doc by using:
$newpdf = pdf_new();
pdf_open_file($newpdf, "");
pdf_set_info($newpdf, "Creator", "Me");
pdf_set_info($newpdf, "Author", "Me");
pdf_set_info($newpdf, "Title", "Tryal");
pdf_set_info($newpdf, "Subject", "tryal");
pdf_begin_page($newpdf, 595, 842);
$newfont = pdf_findfont($newpdf, "Times-Roman", "host", 0);
pdf_setfont($newpdf, $newfont, 10);
pdf_show_xy($newpdf, $_POST['all_content'], 50, 750);
pdf_end_page($newpdf);
pdf_close($newpdf);
$newbuf = pdf_get_buffer($newpdf);
$newlen = strlen($newbuf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $newlen");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=gen06.pdf");
print $newbuf;
pdf_delete($newpdf);
?>
The problem is, when I want to display the first name and last name, and then email in the pdf, I want the email to display on another line only if email isn't set to NULL. I can get it to display in a webpage using the nl2br function but that doesn't work in pdf. Any ideas how to make this work?
Thanks,
Kelsey

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