The example uses pdf_set_font, but that function is deprecated. Instead use pdf_setfont (without the underscore).
PDF_open_file
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PECL pdflib >= 1.0.0)
PDF_open_file — Creează un fișier PDF [învechit]
Descrierea
PDF_open_file
( resource
$p
, string $filename
) : bool
Creează un fișier nou PDF utilizând numele fișierului furnizat.
Întoarce valoarea TRUE în cazul
succesului sau FALSE în cazul eșecului.
Această funcție este învechită începând cu PDFlib versiunea 6, utilizați PDF_begin_document() în loc.
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php at mijav dot dk ¶
19 years ago
gbl at bso2001 dot com ¶
22 years ago
Appending to PDF files: plainly, you can't. PDF files have an internal structure that would get corrupted by just appending to the file. You'd need to parse the PDF, create a new PDF and mix your additions with the old PDF. Just creating a new one should be *much* easier.
Reading back the results: do a fopen() on the temporary file and use fgets() to read it. In your example where you just want to output the file, passthru should do the trick.
Anonymous ¶
19 years ago
After some troubles I found filename must be absolute path here in windows; relative path doesn't work in my box.
php 4.3.5-dev
jon at logicworks dot cc ¶
21 years ago
When creating a pdf in memory, it appears that the code is executed twice. This does not seem to happen when creating a pdf as file. Not a problem when outputing a pdf, but does cause a problem if doing other writes in the same code:
// the write to the file is executed twice
$fp = fopen("testfile.htm", "a");
fwrite($fp, "testline/") ;
fclose($fp);
//--------------
$pdf = pdf_new();
if (!pdf_open_file($pdf, "")) {
print error;
exit;
};
pdf_begin_page($pdf, 8.5*72, 11*72);
pdf_set_font($pdf, "Helvetica-Bold", 24, "host");
pdf_set_text_pos($pdf, 50, 700);
pdf_show($pdf,"Hello,world!");
pdf_end_page($pdf);
pdf_close($pdf);
$buf = pdf_get_buffer($pdf);
$len = strlen($buf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=foo.pdf");
print $buf;
RandyAtHorktDotCom ¶
21 years ago
It is possible to append pdfs to each other, however it requires the commercial version of PDFlib with PDI support (http://www.pdflib.com)
I've used it quite a bit and is well worth the price they are asking for.
Anonymous ¶
18 years ago
"Fatal error: PDFlib error: [2100] PDF_begin_page: Function must not be called in 'object' scope.."
If you get this error then you probably forgot to call pdf_open_file() or pdf_open_file() failed.
Button dot Man at gmail dot com ¶
18 years ago
"Fatal error: PDFlib error: [2100] PDF_begin_page: Function must not be called in 'object' scope"
I found a solution for this fault:
when i got the fault, this was the script ->
<?php
$pdf = pdf_new();
pdf_open_file($pdf, "C:\web\pdf\test45.pdf");
pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842);
pdf_set_font($pdf, "Times-Roman", 30, "host");
pdf_set_value($pdf, "textrendering", 1);
pdf_show_xy($pdf, "A PDF document is created!", 50, 750);
pdf_end_page($pdf);
pdf_close($pdf);
?>
but when i added some slashes to the path:
<?php
$pdf = pdf_new();
pdf_open_file($pdf, "C:\\web\\pdf\\test45.pdf");
pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842);
pdf_set_font($pdf, "Times-Roman", 30, "host");
pdf_set_value($pdf, "textrendering", 1);
pdf_show_xy($pdf, "A PDF document is created!", 50, 750);
pdf_end_page($pdf);
pdf_close($pdf);
?>
there wasn't no fault anymore and the pdf-file was succesfully created
I think you guys get the point ( add 2 slashes )
Glenn
alfred dot zingg at freesurf dot ch at example dot com ¶
19 years ago
...
$fd = fopen("download/liste.pdf", "w");
$pdfdoc = pdf_open($fd);
pdf_begin_page($pdfdoc, 595, 842);
pdf_set_font($pdfdoc, "Helvetica", 20, "host", 1);
pdf_set_text_pos($pdfdoc, 50, 795);
pdf_show($pdfdoc, "Liste");
...
does not work under PHP5, use
...
$fd = fopen("download/liste.pdf", "w");
$pdfdoc = pdf_new();
pdf_open_file($pdfdoc, "download/liste.pdf");
pdf_begin_page($pdfdoc, 595.3, 841.8);
$font = pdf_findfont($pdfdoc, "Helvetica", "winansi", 0);
pdf_set_font($pdfdoc, $font, 20);
pdf_set_text_pos($pdfdoc, 50, 795);
pdf_show($pdfdoc, "Liste");
...
nils at deviant dot no ¶
22 years ago
If you get "Fatal error: PDFlib error: function 'PDF_set_info' must not be called in 'object' scope in script.php on line xxx" when using pdf_open_file with a filename, make sure your webserver has write permissions to the directory your are trying to save your PDF file to.
phpnet021221 A~T netized D~O~T com ¶
17 years ago
FYI: the reason you had to add the double slashes was due to the fact that your string was contained within double quotes rather than single quotes.
See: http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
