blocks/block_below_contents
Fill PDFlib Blocks so that they are placed below the imported page.
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<?php
/*
* Block below contents:
* Fill PDFlib blocks so that they are placed below the imported page
*
* Fill PDFlib blocks such that not the block contents are placed on top of the
* original imported page, but the other way round.
* Place the PDF page using PDF_fit_pdi_page(), but supply the "blind" option
* to suppress the actual page contents. Fill the block(s) as desired. Place the
* PDF page again, this time without the "blind" option.
*
* Required software: PPS 10
* Required data: PDF document containing blocks
*/
/* 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";
$outfile = "";
$title = "Block below Contents";
$infile = "announcement_blocks.pdf";
$tf = 0;
/* Name of the block contained on the imported page */
$blockname = "offer";
$offer = "SPECIAL\nSEASON\nOFFER\nby the\nPAPERFIELD\nPLANE CENTER";
try {
$p = new PDFlib();
$p->set_option("searchpath={" . $searchpath . "}");
$p->set_option("searchpath={" . $fontpath . "}");
/* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
$p->set_option("errorpolicy=return");
if ($p->begin_document($outfile, "") == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
$p->set_info("Title", $title);
/* Open a PDF containing blocks */
$indoc = $p->open_pdi_document($infile, "");
if ($indoc == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
/* Open the first page */
$inpage = $p->open_pdi_page($indoc, 1, "");
if ($inpage == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
/* Get the width and height of the imported page */
$width = $p->pcos_get_number($indoc, "pages[0]/width");
$height = $p->pcos_get_number($indoc, "pages[0]/height");
/* Start the output page with the size given by the imported page */
$p->begin_page_ext($width, $height, "");
/* Place the imported page on the output page but supply the "blind"
* option to suppress the actual page contents
*/
$p->fit_pdi_page($inpage, 0, 0, "blind");
/* Fill one block with the Textflow */
$text = $offer;
/* Option list for text blocks; the encoding should be defined
* and the Textflow handle supplied. "alignment=center" is used
* to center the text horizontally. Other options have
* already been set in the properties of the blocks contained in
* the input document, such as:
* "fitmethod=clip" to clip the text when it doesn't fit completely
* into the block while avoiding any text shrinking.
* "margin=4" to set some space between the text and the borders of
* the block rectangle.
* "fontsize=60" as a font size of 60.
* "fillcolor={gray 0.9}" to output the text in a light gray.
*/
$optlist = "alignment=center textflowhandle=" . $tf;
$tf = $p->fill_textblock($inpage, $blockname, $text, $optlist);
if ($tf == 0)
trigger_error("Warning: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$p->delete_textflow($tf);
/* Place the imported page again but this time without the "blind"
* option supplied
*/
$p->fit_pdi_page($inpage, 0, 0, "");
$p->end_page_ext("");
$p->close_pdi_page($inpage);
$p->end_document("");
$p->close_pdi_document($indoc);
$buf = $p->get_buffer();
$len = strlen($buf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=block_below_contents.pdf");
print $buf;
} catch (PDFlibException $e) {
echo("PDFlib exception occurred:\n".
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() .
": " . $e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
exit(1);
} catch (Throwable $e) {
echo("PHP exception occurred: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n");
exit(1);
}
$p = 0;
?>