blocks/business_cards
Output an imported PDF page several times, with its Blocks filled with different personalized data.
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<?php
/*
* Business cards:
* Output an imported PDF page several times, with its blocks being filled with
* different personalized data
*
* Import a PDF page representing a business card template. To create business
* cards for various persons, output the page several times with the contained
* blocks being filled with personalized data related to the respective person.
*
* 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 = "Business Cards";
$infile = "businesscard_blocks.pdf";
$nblocks = 8; // number of blocks to be filled
/* Names of the blocks contained in the imported page */
$blocknames = array(
"name", "business_title", "business_address_line1",
"business_address_city", "business_telephone_voice",
"business_telephone_fax", "business_email", "business_homepage"
);
$npersons = 3; // number of persons
/* Data related to various persons used for personalization */
$persons = array(
array("Victor Kraxi", "Chief Paper Officer", "17, Aviation Road",
"Paperfield", "7079-4301",
"7079-4302", "victor@kraxi.com", "www.kraxi.com"),
array("Paula Kraxi", "Chief Paper Pilot", "17, Aviation Road",
"Paperfield", "7079-4301",
"7079-4302", "paula@kraxi.com", "www.kraxi.com"),
array("Serge Kraxi", "Chief Paper Folder", "17, Aviation Road",
"Paperfield", "7079-4301",
"7079-4302", "serge@kraxi.com", "www.kraxi.com")
);
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");
/* Based on the imported page output several pages with the blocks
* being filled with data related to different persons
*/
for ($i = 0; $i < $npersons; $i++)
{
/* 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 */
$p->fit_pdi_page($inpage, 0, 0, "");
/* Loop over all blocks on the page */
for ($j = 0; $j < $nblocks; $j++) {
/* Fill the j-th block with the corresponding entry of the
* persons array. The "bordercolor" and "linewidth" options are
* only used to illustrate the block rectangles
*/
$optlist = "bordercolor={gray 0.5} linewidth=0.25";
if ($p->fill_textblock($inpage, $blocknames[$j], $persons[$i][$j],
$optlist) == 0)
trigger_error("Warning: " . $p->get_errmsg() ."\n");
}
$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=business_cards.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;
?>