pdf_import/starter_pdfmerge
Merge pages from multiple PDF documents.
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<?php
/*
* PDF merge starter:
* Merge pages from multiple PDF documents (including annotations)
*
* Required software: PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9
* Required data: PDF documents
*/
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
$searchpath = dirname(__FILE__,3)."/input";
/* By default annotations are also imported. In some cases this
* requires the Noto fonts for creating annotation appearance streams.
* We therefore set the searchpath to also point to the font directory.
*/
$fontpath = dirname(__FILE__,3)."/resource/font";
$outfilename = "";
$pdffiles = array(
"markup_annotations_input.pdf",
"PLOP-datasheet.pdf",
"pCOS-datasheet.pdf"
);
try {
$p = new PDFlib();
// This means we must check return values of load_font() etc.
$p->set_option("errorpolicy=return");
$p->set_option("searchpath={" . $searchpath . "}");
$p->set_option("searchpath={" . $fontpath . "}");
if ($p->begin_document($outfilename, "") == 0) {
echo("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
exit(1);
}
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
$p->set_info("Title", "Starter PDF Merge");
foreach ($pdffiles as $pdffile) {
/* Open the input PDF */
$indoc = $p->open_pdi_document($pdffile, "");
if ($indoc == 0) {
printf("Error: %s\n", $p->get_errmsg());
continue;
}
$endpage = $p->pcos_get_number($indoc, "length:pages");
/* Loop over all pages of the input document */
for ($pageno = 1; $pageno <= $endpage; $pageno++) {
$page = $p->open_pdi_page($indoc, $pageno, "");
if ($page == 0) {
printf("Error: %s\n", $p->get_errmsg());
continue;
}
/* Page size may be adjusted by fit_pdi_page() */
$p->begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Create a bookmark with the file name */
if ($pageno == 1) {
$p->create_bookmark($pdffile, "");
}
/* Place the imported $page on the output $page, and
* adjust the $page size. If the page contains annotations
* these are also imported.
*/
$p->fit_pdi_page($page, 0, 0, "adjustpage");
$p->close_pdi_page($page);
$p->end_page_ext("");
}
$p->close_pdi_document($indoc);
}
$p->end_document("");
$buf = $p->get_buffer();
$len = strlen($buf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=starter_pdfmerge.pdf");
print $buf;
}
catch (PDFlibException $e) {
echo("PDFlib exception occurred in starter_pdfmerge sample:\n" .
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() . ": " .
$e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
exit(1);
}
catch (Throwable $e) {
echo($e);
exit(1);
}
$p = 0;
?>