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PDF 函式

簡介

The PDF functions in PHP can create PDF files using the PDFlib library which was initially created by Thomas Merz and is now maintained by » PDFlib GmbH.

The documentation in this section is only meant to be an overview of the available functions in the PDFlib library and should not be considered an exhaustive reference. For the full and detailed explanation of each function, consult the PDFlib Reference Manual which is included in all PDFlib packages distributed by PDFlib GmbH. It provides a very good overview of what PDFlib is capable of doing and contains the most up-to-date documentation of all functions.

For a jump start we urge you to take a look at the programming samples which are contained in all PDFlib distribution packages. These samples demonstrate basic text, vector, and graphics output as well as higher-level functions, such as the PDF import facility (PDI).

All of the functions in PDFlib and the PHP module have identical function names and parameters. Unless configured otherwise, all lengths and coordinates are measured in PostScript points. There are generally 72 PostScript points to an inch, but this depends on the output resolution. Please see the PDFlib Reference Manual included in the PDFlib distribution for a more thorough explanation of the coordinate system used.

With version 6, PDFlib offers an object-oriented API for PHP 5 in addition to the function-oriented API for PHP 4. The main difference is the following:

In PHP 4, first a PDF resource has to be retrieved with a function call like

$p = PDF_new().

This PDF resource is used as the first parameter in all further function calls, such as in

PDF_begin_document($p, "", "").

In PHP 5 however, a PDFlib object is created with

$p = new PDFlib().

This object offers all PDFlib API functions as methods, e.g. as with

$p->begin_document("", "").

In addition, exceptions have been introduced in PHP 5 which are supported by PDFlib 6 and later as well.

Please see the examples below for more information.

Note: If you're interested in alternative free PDF generators that do not utilize external PDF libraries, see this related FAQ.

需求

PDFlib Lite is available as open source. However, the PDFlib Lite license allows free use only under certain conditions. PDFlib Lite supports a subset of PDFlib's functionality; please see the PDFlib web site for details. The full version of PDFlib is available for download at » http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib-family/, but requires that you purchase a license for commercial use.

Issues with older versions of PDFlib

Any version of PHP 4 after March 9, 2000 does not support versions of PDFlib older than 3.0.

PDFlib 4.0 or greater is supported by PHP 4.3.0 and later.

安裝

本 » PECL 擴充功能未包含於 PHP 中。 安裝此 PECL 擴充功能的訊息可在手冊中標題為 PECL 擴充功能安裝的一章中找到。 更多訊息如新版本，下載，原始文件，維護者訊息以及更新日誌等可以在這裡找到： » http://pecl.php.net/package/pdflib.

To get these functions to work in PHP < 4.3.9, you have to compile PHP with --with-pdflib[=DIR]. DIR is the PDFlib base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.

資源類型

PDF_new() creates a new PDFlib object required by most PDF functions.

Remarks about Deprecated PDFlib Functions

Starting with PHP 4.0.5, the PHP extension for PDFlib is officially supported by PDFlib GmbH. This means that all the functions described in the PDFlib Reference Manual are supported by PHP 4 with exactly the same meaning and the same parameters. However, with PDFlib Version 5.0.4 or higher all parameters have to be specified. For compatibility reasons, this binding for PDFlib still supports most of the deprecated functions, but they should be replaced by their new versions. PDFlib GmbH will not support any problems arising from the use of these deprecated functions. The documentation in this section indicates old functions as "Deprecated" and gives the replacement function to be used instead.

範例

Most of the functions are fairly easy to use. The most difficult part is probably creating your first PDF document. The following example should help to get you started. It is developed for PHP 4 and creates the file hello.pdf with one page. It defines some document info field contents, loads the Helvetica-Bold font and outputs the text "Hello world! (says PHP)".

Example#1 Hello World example from PDFlib distribution for PHP 4

<?php
$p = PDF_new();

/*  open new PDF file; insert a file name to create the PDF on disk */
if (PDF_begin_document($p, "", "") == 0) {
    die("Error: " . PDF_get_errmsg($p));
}

PDF_set_info($p, "Creator", "hello.php");
PDF_set_info($p, "Author", "Rainer Schaaf");
PDF_set_info($p, "Title", "Hello world (PHP)!");

PDF_begin_page_ext($p, 595, 842, "");

$font = PDF_load_font($p, "Helvetica-Bold", "winansi", "");

PDF_setfont($p, $font, 24.0);
PDF_set_text_pos($p, 50, 700);
PDF_show($p, "Hello world!");
PDF_continue_text($p, "(says PHP)");
PDF_end_page_ext($p, "");

PDF_end_document($p, "");

$buf = PDF_get_buffer($p);
$len = strlen($buf);

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=hello.pdf");
print $buf;

PDF_delete($p);
?>

The following example comes with the PDFlib distribution for PHP 5. It uses the new exception handling and object encapsulation features available in PHP 5. It creates the file hello.pdf with one page. It defines some document info field contents, loads the Helvetica-Bold font and outputs the text "Hello world! (says PHP)".

Example#2 Hello World example from PDFlib distribution for PHP 5

<?php

try {
    $p = new PDFlib();

    /*  open new PDF file; insert a file name to create the PDF on disk */
    if ($p->begin_document("", "") == 0) {
        die("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
    }

    $p->set_info("Creator", "hello.php");
    $p->set_info("Author", "Rainer Schaaf");
    $p->set_info("Title", "Hello world (PHP)!");

    $p->begin_page_ext(595, 842, "");

    $font = $p->load_font("Helvetica-Bold", "winansi", "");

    $p->setfont($font, 24.0);
    $p->set_text_pos(50, 700);
    $p->show("Hello world!");
    $p->continue_text("(says PHP)");
    $p->end_page_ext("");

    $p->end_document("");

    $buf = $p->get_buffer();
    $len = strlen($buf);

    header("Content-type: application/pdf");
    header("Content-Length: $len");
    header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=hello.pdf");
    print $buf;
}
catch (PDFlibException $e) {
    die("PDFlib exception occurred in hello sample:\n" .
    "[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() . ": " .
    $e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
}
catch (Exception $e) {
    die($e);
}
$p = 0;
?>

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Last updated: Sun, 25 Nov 2007
 
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bondo2 at bondo2 dot info
09-Oct-2008 02:20
<?php

//getting new instance
$pdfFile = new_pdf();

PDF_open_file($pdfFile, " ");

//document info
pdf_set_info($pdfFile, "Auther", "Ahmed Elbshry");
pdf_set_info($pdfFile, "Creator", "Ahmed Elbshry");
pdf_set_info($pdfFile, "Title", "PDFlib");
pdf_set_info($pdfFile, "Subject", "Using PDFlib");

//starting our page and define the width and highet of the document
pdf_begin_page($pdfFile, 595, 842);

//check if Arial font is found, or exit
if($font = PDF_findfont($pdfFile, "Arial", "winansi", 1)) {
    PDF_setfont($pdfFile, $font, 12);
} else {
    echo ("Font Not Found!");
    PDF_end_page($pdfFile);
    PDF_close($pdfFile);
    PDF_delete($pdfFile);
    exit();
}

//start writing from the point 50,780
PDF_show_xy($pdfFile, "This Text In Arial Font", 50, 780);
PDF_end_page($pdfFile);
PDF_close($pdfFile);

//store the pdf document in $pdf
$pdf = PDF_get_buffer($pdfFile);
//get  the len to tell the browser about it
$pdflen = strlen($pdfFile);

//telling the browser about the pdf document
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-length: $pdflen");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=phpMade.pdf");
//output the document
print($pdf);
//delete the object
PDF_delete($pdfFile);
?>
Spipu
03-Jun-2008 08:19
a html => pdf convertor (PHP4-5, user FPDF):

http://html2pdf.spipu.net/
SID TRIVEDI
20-Jan-2008 06:16
/*
Folks, There is an excellent tutorial from Rasmus Lerdorf available at (It does not support I.E.)

http://talks.php.net/show/osconpdf/

Where PHP Mastermind Guru (Father) explained nicely about text, fonts, images and their attributes with working snippets.

Another tutorial can be found at

www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-PDF-Documents-with-PHP-5

Hence following is the various size of PDF Document.

Origin is at the lower left and the basic unit is the DTP pt.

1 pt = 1/72 inch = 0.35277777778 mm

Some common page sizes

Format          Width   Height
US-Letter      612      792
US-Legal       612      1008
US-Ledger     1224     792
11x17           792      1224
A0                2380    3368
A1                1684    2380
A2                1190    1684
A3                842      1190
A4                595      842
A5                421      595
A6                297      421
B5                501      709

*/
info at tecnick dot com
10-Jan-2008 12:54
For those of us that do not want to pay for a commercial license to use PDFlib I suggest TCPDF:

http://tcpdf.sf.net

TCPDF is an Open Source PHP class for generating PDF files on-the-fly without requiring external extensions. This class is already adopted by a large number of php projects such as phpMyAdmin, Drupal, Joomla, Xoops, TCExam, etc. 

Starting from 2.1 version TCPDF supports UTF-8 Unicode and bidirectional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Ken McColl
21-Nov-2007 05:06
To get this to work on Windows do not use escapeshellcmd()

From online help:
Following characters are preceded by a backslash: #&;`|*?~<>^()[]{}$\, \x0A and \xFF. ' and " are escaped only if they are not paired. In Windows, all these characters plus % are replaced by a space instead.

So you are probably passing duff paths to pdf2text.exe

Removing escapeshellcmd worked for me. Just make darned sure you are in control of what is being passed through to your system call.
kangaroo232002 at yahoo dot co dot uk
18-Nov-2007 12:25
To extend alex's example earlier, you can use a couple of switches inside the pdf doc to give you the total number of pages, without using any ext. I would have added the whole code, however the site keeps on saying "line is too long... yadayada".

Open the doc using fopen("$file", "rb"); (for reading)

Test the first approx 1000b for the following regex
<?php
if(preg_match("/\/N\s+([0-9]+)/", $contents, $found)) {
    return $found[1];
}
?>

If that doesn't return anything, you have to read the rest of the file:

<?php

preg_match_all("/\/Type\s*\/Pages\s*\/Kids\s+
\[.*?\]\s*\/Count\s+([0-9]+)/");

?>

This may return more than one, so look through for the highest value, which is the total number of pages in your doc.
Jonathon Hibbard
05-Nov-2007 03:37
The other issue with DOMpdf is that it has some pretty painful flaws.

You have to supply full paths to everything (images, includes, javascript files, etc).  And boy, do i mean everything.

Even then, it is not 100% sound.  If you have complex sites, it cannot handle it.  It instead breaks the design and only provides you with about a million broken images.

Don't get me wrong, it's GREAT for use with lower-end more simple sites, but if you have a site that say, has a javascript navigation, flash, and a bunch of container divs, it's really not going to do the job.

The above library seems to be the best fit, as about the only way to get high-end sites to work is just to manually write it out yourself using the functions above.

Sorry to bust anyone's bubble.  Good luck.
spadmore1980 at gmail dot com
23-Oct-2007 03:23
http://www.fpdf.org/ is also quite good. Np lib install is required

-Shelon Padmore
taufiq at simplybuzz dot com
23-Oct-2007 01:13
There is XPDF Win32 binary package at SourceForge for pdftotext purpose that works.

I've tried php codes below but didn't work.
praokean at yahoo dot com
22-Aug-2007 05:08
domPDF is not so great PDF creator becouse don't support foreign charachters.
Sam from dogmaConsult.de
15-Aug-2007 02:00
I seriously tried to get PDF parsing to work to use it in the indexing for fulltext search for a document management. But none of the pdf2text functions below worked for my test cases (among them an openoffice generated pdf file and a file generated by fpdf).

But I found a REALLY WORKING SOLUTION! On linux systems, install the XPDF package. It comes with a tool called pdftotext. Use php code similar to the following to get the text content of your pdf files:

<?php
    $file = "test.pdf";
    $outpath = preg_replace("/\.pdf$/", "", $file).".txt";
   
    system("pdftotext ".escapeshellcmd($file), $ret);
    if ($ret == 0)
    {
        $value = file_get_contents($outpath);
        unlink($outpath);
        print $value;
    }
    if ($ret == 127)
        print "Could not find pdftotext tool.";
    if ($ret == 1)
        print "Could not find pdf file.";
?>

The solution works on all test cases and is much more powerful than any of the previous pure php functions posted here, although only available on linux.
tatlar at yahoo dot com
14-Aug-2007 04:49
http://www.digitaljunkies.ca/dompdf/index.php

PHP5 class that converts HTML to PDF. From the website:
"At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) CSS2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes."
david at metabin
19-Jul-2007 04:19
Easiest way to get the text of a pdf is to install xpdf (on redhat yum -y install xpdf)

then run xpdftotext your.pdf - which will then generate your.txt.
brain23 at gmx dot de
03-Jul-2007 07:28
For FPDF there also is an addon (FPDI) available, which let you import existing PDF documents:

http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/
jaymaity at gmail dot com
01-Jun-2007 05:22
Totally free open source alternative is also available without any license cost at
http://fpdf.org/
jkndrkn at gmail dot com
03-May-2007 10:51
For those of us that do not want to pay for a commercial license to use PDFlib in a closed-source project, there are at least two good alternatives: FPDF and TCPDF

http://www.fpdf.org/
PHP4 and PHP5 support

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php
PHP5 support only
luc at phpt dot org
29-Mar-2007 10:09
I am trying to extract the text from PDF files and use it to feed a search engine (Intranet tool). I tried several functions "PDF2TXT" posted below, but not they do not produce the expected result. At least, all words need to be separated by spaces (then used as keywords), and the "junk" codes removed (for example: binary data, pictures...). I start modifying the interesting function posted by Swen, and here is the my current version that starts to work quite well (with PDF version 1.2). Sorry for having a quite different style of programming. Luc

<?php
// Patch for pdf2txt() posted Sven Schuberth
// Add/replace following code (cannot post full program, size limitation)

// handles the verson 1.2
// New version of handleV2($data), only one line changed
function handleV2($data){
       
    // grab objects and then grab their contents (chunks)
    $a_obj = getDataArray($data,"obj","endobj");
   
    foreach($a_obj as $obj){
       
        $a_filter = getDataArray($obj,"<<",">>");
   
        if (is_array($a_filter)){
            $j++;
            $a_chunks[$j]["filter"] = $a_filter[0];

            $a_data = getDataArray($obj,"stream\r\n","endstream");
            if (is_array($a_data)){
                $a_chunks[$j]["data"] = substr($a_data[0],
        strlen("stream\r\n"),
        strlen($a_data[0])-strlen("stream\r\n")-strlen("endstream"));
            }
        }
    }

    // decode the chunks
    foreach($a_chunks as $chunk){

        // look at each chunk and decide how to decode it - by looking at the contents of the filter
        $a_filter = split("/",$chunk["filter"]);
       
        if ($chunk["data"]!=""){
            // look at the filter to find out which encoding has been used           
            if (substr($chunk["filter"],"FlateDecode")!==false){
                $data =@ gzuncompress($chunk["data"]);
                if (trim($data)!=""){
            // CHANGED HERE, before: $result_data .= ps2txt($data);   
                    $result_data .= PS2Text_New($data);
                } else {
               
                    //$result_data .= "x";
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return $result_data;
}

// New function - Extract text from PS codes
function ExtractPSTextElement($SourceString)
{
$CurStartPos = 0;
while (($CurStartText = strpos($SourceString, '(', $CurStartPos)) !== FALSE)
    {
    // New text element found
    if ($CurStartText - $CurStartPos > 8) $Spacing = ' ';
    else    {
        $SpacingSize = substr($SourceString, $CurStartPos, $CurStartText - $CurStartPos);
        if ($SpacingSize < -25) $Spacing = ' '; else $Spacing = '';
        }
    $CurStartText++;

    $StartSearchEnd = $CurStartText;
    while (($CurStartPos = strpos($SourceString, ')', $StartSearchEnd)) !== FALSE)
        {
        if (substr($SourceString, $CurStartPos - 1, 1) != '\\') break;
        $StartSearchEnd = $CurStartPos + 1;
        }
    if ($CurStartPos === FALSE) break; // something wrong happened
   
    // Remove ending '-'
    if (substr($Result, -1, 1) == '-')
        {
        $Spacing = '';
        $Result = substr($Result, 0, -1);
        }

    // Add to result
    $Result .= $Spacing . substr($SourceString, $CurStartText, $CurStartPos - $CurStartText);
    $CurStartPos++;
    }
// Add line breaks (otherwise, result is one big line...)
return $Result . "\n";
}

// Global table for codes replacement
$TCodeReplace = array ('\(' => '(', '\)' => ')');

// New function, replacing old "pd2txt" function
function PS2Text_New($PS_Data)
{
global $TCodeReplace;

// Catch up some codes
if (ord($PS_Data[0]) < 10) return '';
if (substr($PS_Data, 0, 8) == '/CIDInit') return '';

// Some text inside (...) can be found outside the [...] sets, then ignored
// => disable the processing of [...] is the easiest solution

$Result = ExtractPSTextElement($PS_Data);

// echo "Code=$PS_Data\nRES=$Result\n\n";

// Remove/translate some codes
return strtr($Result, $TCodeReplace);
}

?>
Sven.Schuberth(at)gmx.de
28-Mar-2007 11:38
I've improved the codesnipped for the pdf2txt version 1.2.
Now its possible the translate pdf version >1.2 into plain text.

Sven

<?php
// Function    : pdf2txt()
// Arguments   : $filename - Filename of the PDF you want to extract
// Description : Reads a pdf file, extracts data streams, and manages
//               their translation to plain text - returning the plain
//               text at the end
// Authors      : Jonathan Beckett, 2005-05-02
//                            : Sven Schuberth, 2007-03-29

function pdf2txt($filename){

    $data = getFileData($filename);
   
    $s=strpos($data,"%")+1;
   
    $version=substr($data,$s,strpos($data,"%",$s)-1);
    if(substr_count($version,"PDF-1.2")==0)
        return handleV3($data);
    else
        return handleV2($data);

   
}
// handles the verson 1.2
function handleV2($data){
       
    // grab objects and then grab their contents (chunks)
    $a_obj = getDataArray($data,"obj","endobj");
   
    foreach($a_obj as $obj){
       
        $a_filter = getDataArray($obj,"<<",">>");
   
        if (is_array($a_filter)){
            $j++;
            $a_chunks[$j]["filter"] = $a_filter[0];

            $a_data = getDataArray($obj,"stream\r\n","endstream");
            if (is_array($a_data)){
                $a_chunks[$j]["data"] = substr($a_data[0],
strlen("stream\r\n"),
strlen($a_data[0])-strlen("stream\r\n")-strlen("endstream"));
            }
        }
    }

    // decode the chunks
    foreach($a_chunks as $chunk){

        // look at each chunk and decide how to decode it - by looking at the contents of the filter
        $a_filter = split("/",$chunk["filter"]);
       
        if ($chunk["data"]!=""){
            // look at the filter to find out which encoding has been used           
            if (substr($chunk["filter"],"FlateDecode")!==false){
                $data =@ gzuncompress($chunk["data"]);
                if (trim($data)!=""){
                    $result_data .= ps2txt($data);
                } else {
               
                    //$result_data .= "x";
                }
            }
        }
    }
   
    return $result_data;
}

//handles versions >1.2
function handleV3($data){
    // grab objects and then grab their contents (chunks)
    $a_obj = getDataArray($data,"obj","endobj");
    $result_data="";
    foreach($a_obj as $obj){
        //check if it a string
        if(substr_count($obj,"/GS1")>0){
            //the strings are between ( and )
            preg_match_all("|\((.*?)\)|",$obj,$field,PREG_SET_ORDER);
            if(is_array($field))
                foreach($field as $data)
                    $result_data.=$data[1];
        }
    }
    return $result_data;
}

function ps2txt($ps_data){
    $result = "";
    $a_data = getDataArray($ps_data,"[","]");
    if (is_array($a_data)){
        foreach ($a_data as $ps_text){
            $a_text = getDataArray($ps_text,"(",")");
            if (is_array($a_text)){
                foreach ($a_text as $text){
                    $result .= substr($text,1,strlen($text)-2);
                }
            }
        }
    } else {
        // the data may just be in raw format (outside of [] tags)
        $a_text = getDataArray($ps_data,"(",")");
        if (is_array($a_text)){
            foreach ($a_text as $text){
                $result .= substr($text,1,strlen($text)-2);
            }
        }
    }
    return $result;
}

function getFileData($filename){
    $handle = fopen($filename,"rb");
    $data = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
    fclose($handle);
    return $data;
}

function getDataArray($data,$start_word,$end_word){

    $start = 0;
    $end = 0;
    unset($a_result);
   
    while ($start!==false && $end!==false){
        $start = strpos($data,$start_word,$end);
        if ($start!==false){
            $end = strpos($data,$end_word,$start);
            if ($end!==false){
                // data is between start and end
                $a_result[] = substr($data,$start,$end-$start+strlen($end_word));
            }
        }
    }
    return $a_result;
}
?>
brendandonhue at comcast dot net
22-Aug-2006 08:35
Here is a function to test whether a file is a PDF without using any external library.
<?php
define('PDF_MAGIC', "\\x25\\x50\\x44\\x46\\x2D");
function is_pdf($filename) {
  return (file_get_contents($filename, false, null, 0, strlen(PDF_MAGIC)) === PDF_MAGIC) ? true : false;
}
?>
It's not checking if the whole file is valid, just if the correct header is present at the beginning of the file.
MAGnUm at magnumhome dot servehttp.com
17-Jul-2006 02:01
domPDF is also a great PDF creation interface. it basically converts your code to CSS and then builds the PDF from that with the absolute positions, and what not...
spingary at yahoo dot com
12-Jan-2006 12:55
I was having trouble with streaming inline PDf's using PHP 5.0.2, Apache 2.0.54.

This is my code:

<?
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate");
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($file));
header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=$file");
header("Accept-Ranges: ".filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit();
?>
It would work fine in Mozilla Firefox (1.0.7) but with IE (6.0.2800.1106) it would not bring up the Adobe Reader plugin and instead ask me to save it or open it as a PHP file.

Oddly enough, I turned off ZLib.compression and it started working.  I guess the compression is confusing IE.  I tried leaving out the content-length header thinking maybe it was unmatched filesize (uncompressed number vs actual received compressed size), but then without it it screws up Firefox too. 

What I ended up doing was disabling Zlib compression for the PDF output pages using ini_set:

<?
ini_set('zlib.output_compression','Off');
?>

Maybe this will help someone. Will post over in the PDF section as well.
ontwerp AT zonnet.nl
03-Nov-2005 11:01
I was searching for a lowcost/opensource option for combining static html files [as templates] and dynamic output from perl or php routines etc. And the sooner or later I found out that this was the most stable, 'speedest' and customizeable way to produce usable pdf 's with nice formatting :

1] create html page output [perl-> html output, direct html output from any app or php echo's etc. [sort these html files locally]

2] parse all html [inluding webimages links, tables font formatting etc] to [E]PS files with the perl app : html2ps [as mentioned beneath]
http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html [sort all ps files by future pdf page positions]

3] use the free ps2pdf/ps2pdfwr linux application
http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/index.htm [uses gostscript, ghostview libs and so on etc]
Has great formatting options like headers, footers, numbering etc
[sort pdf files]

4] convert all pdf files to 1 pdf file with : pdftk [pdftoolkit], deliveres optional compressions/encryption, background stamps etc

One should ask why using different scripts :
- combination perl/php is great : perl is speedier at some issues like conversion to ps files in my experience
- ps to pdf is quickier then direct php to pdf [in my exp.!]
- I have total control over every files whenever i change html files as a template I use only editors or other app. for it [online or offline].

p.s. I had to make a opensource solution for creating simpel report analyses that's based on things like :
- first page [name / title / #/ date]
- some static info [like introduction, copyrights etc]
- some dynamic info [outputted from php->dbase queries] combined
with html tags/images etc.

And this all mixed [so seperated in files for transparancy]. Also the 3 way manner : data-> html, html->ps, ps->pdf, is easier and quickier to program or adjust in every step.

Correct me if i'm wrong [mail me to]

ing. Valentijn Langendorff
Design & Technologist
ragnar at deulos dot com
07-Oct-2005 07:30
After one hole day understanding how pdflib works i got the conclusion that its enough hard to draw just with words to furthermore for drawing a line maybe you will need something like four lines of code, so i did my own functions to do the life easier and the code more understable to modify and draw. I also made a function that will draw a rect with the corners round and the posibility even to fill it ;)

You can get it from http://www.deulos.com/pdf_php.php

feel free to make suggestions or whatever u like ;o)
17-Sep-2005 11:26
some code that can be very helpful for starters.

<?php

    // Declare PDF File

    $pdf = pdf_new();
    PDF_open_file($pdf);

    // Set Document Properties

    PDF_set_info($pdf, "author", "Alexander Pas");
    PDF_set_info($pdf, "title", "PDF by PHP Example");
    PDF_set_info($pdf, "creator", "Alexander Pas");
    PDF_set_info($pdf, "subject", "Testing Code");

    // Get fonts to use

    pdf_set_parameter($pdf, "FontOutline", "Arial=arial.ttf"); // get a custom font
    $font1 = PDF_findfont($pdf, "Helvetica-Bold",  "winansi", 0); // declare default font
    $font2 = PDF_findfont($pdf, "Arial",  "winansi", 1); // declare custom font & embed into file

    /*
    You can use the following Fontypes 14 safely (the default fonts)
    Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-Oblique, Courier-BoldOblique
    Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-BoldOblique
    Times-Roman, Times-Bold, Times-Italic, Times-BoldItalic
    Symbol, ZapfDingbats
    */

    // make the images

    $image1 = PDF_open_image_file($pdf, "gif", "image.gif"); //supported filetypes are: jpeg, tiff, gif, png.

    //Make First Page

    PDF_begin_page($pdf, 450, 450); // page width and height.
    $bookmark = PDF_add_bookmark($pdf, "Front"); // add a top level bookmark.
    PDF_setfont($pdf, $font1, 12); // use this font from now on.
    PDF_show_xy($pdf, "First Page!", 5, 225); // show this text measured from the left top.
    pdf_place_image($pdf, $image1, 255, 5, 1); // last number will schale it.
    PDF_end_page($pdf); // End of Page.

    //Make Second Page

    PDF_begin_page($pdf,