Output text conforming to PDF/A-1b, taking care of color space and font issues.
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/* $Id: text_to_pdfa.php,v 1.3 2012/05/03 14:00:37 stm Exp $
* Text to PDF/A:
* Output text conforming to PDF/A-1b, taking care of color space and font
* issues
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7
* Required data: font file
*/
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
$searchpath = dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)))."/input";
$outfile = "";
$title = "Text to PDF/A";
$x = 30; $y = 800;
try {
$p = new pdflib();
$p->set_parameter("SearchPath", $searchpath);
/* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
$p->set_parameter("errorpolicy", "return");
$p->set_parameter("textformat", "utf8");
/* Output all contents conforming to PDF/A-1b */
if ($p->begin_document($outfile, "pdfa=PDF/A-1b:2005") == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
$p->set_info("Title", $title);
/* Use sRGB as output intent since it allows the color spaces CIELab,
* ICC-based, Grayscale, and RGB
*/
$p->load_iccprofile("sRGB", "usage=outputintent");
$p->begin_page_ext(595, 842, "");
/* Load the font "LuciduxSans-Oblique" with embedding, since font
* embedding is required for PDF/A
*/
$font = $p->load_font("LuciduxSans-Oblique", "unicode", "embedding");
if ($font == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$p->setfont($font, 20);
/* You might want to embed a PDF core font, e.g. "Helvetica". For a PDF
* core font, the font metrics are already built into PDFlib, but
* the font outline file has to be explicitly configured with the
* "FontOutline" ressource category, e.g.
*
* $p->set_parameter("FontOutline", "Helvetica=HV______.pfb");
*
*/
/* We can use RGB text without any further color related options since
* we already supplied an output intent profile.
*/
$p->setcolor("fill", "rgb", 0.7, 0.3, 0.3, 0);
$p->fit_textline("Text with an RGB color conforming to PDF/A-1b:2005",
$x, $y-=100, "");
/* Similarly, we can use Grayscale text without any further options
* since we already supplied an output intent profile.
*/
$p->setcolor("fill", "gray", 0.5, 0, 0, 0);
$p->fit_textline("Text with a Grayscale color conforming to " .
"PDF/A-1b:2005", $x, $y-=100, "");
/* For CMYK text we could use an ICC profile explicitly assigned; the
* code would be as follows:
*
* icc = $p->load_iccprofile("ISOcoated.icc", "usage=iccbased");
* $p->set_value("setcolor:iccprofilecmyk", icc);
* $p->setcolor("fill", "iccbasedcmyk", 0.6, 0.6, 0, 0);
* $p->fit_textline("Text with a CMYK color conforming to PDF/A-1b:2005",
* x, y-=100, "");
*
*/
$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=text_to_pdfa.pdf");
print $buf;
} catch (PDFlibException $e) {
die("PDFlib exception occurred:\n" .
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() .
": " . $e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
} catch (Exception $e) {
die($e->getMessage());
}
$p = 0;
?>