general/starter_basic
Create simple text, vector graphics and image output.
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<?php
/*
*
* Basic starter:
* Create some simple text, vector graphics and image output
*
* required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 10
* required data: image data
*
* Important: this file must be encoded in UTF-8
*/
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
$searchpath = dirname(__FILE__,3)."/input";
$imagefile = "nesrin.jpg";
$outfilename = "";
try {
$p = new PDFlib();
// This means we must check return values of load_font() etc.
$p->set_option("errorpolicy=return");
$p->set_option("searchpath={" . $searchpath . "}");
if ($p->begin_document($outfilename, "") == 0) {
echo ("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
exit(1);
}
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
$p->set_info("Title", "Starter Basic");
/* Load the image before the first page and use it on all pages */
$image = $p->load_image("auto", $imagefile, "");
if ($image == 0) {
echo ("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
exit(1);
}
/* Page 1 */
$p->begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Use NotoSerif-Regular font with text format UTF-8 for placing the text
* and demonstrate various options how to pass the UTF-8 text to PDFlib
*/
$optlist = "fontname={NotoSerif-Regular} fontsize=24";
/* Plain ASCII text */
$p->fit_textline("en: Hello!", 50, 700, $optlist);
/* Unicode code points */
$p->fit_textline("gr: \u{0393}\u{03B5}\u{03B9}\u{03AC}!", 50, 650, $optlist);
/* UTF-8 text */
$p->fit_textline("ru: Привет!", 50, 600, $optlist);
/* PDFlib character reference */
$p->fit_textline("es: ¡Hola!", 50, 550, $optlist . " charref=true");
$p->fit_image($image, 0.0, 0.0, "scale=0.25");
$p->end_page_ext("");
/* Page 2 */
$p->begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Demonstrate different ways of setting the fill color */
/* Red rectangle */
$p->set_graphics_option("fillcolor=red");
$p->rect(200, 200, 250, 150);
$p->fill();
/* Blue circle */
$p->set_graphics_option("fillcolor={rgb 0 0 1}");
$p->arc(400, 600, 100, 0, 360);
$p->fill();
/* Thick gray line */
$p->set_graphics_option("fillcolor={gray 0.5}");
$p->setlinewidth(10);
$p->moveto(100, 500);
$p->lineto(300, 700);
$p->stroke();
/* Using the same $image handle means the data will be copied
* to the PDF only once, which saves space.
*/
$p->fit_image($image, 150.0, 25.0, "scale=0.25");
$p->end_page_ext("");
/* Page 3 */
$p->begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Fit the image to a box of predefined size (without distortion) */
$optlist = "boxsize={400 400} position={center} fitmethod=meet";
$p->fit_image($image, 100, 200, $optlist);
$p->end_page_ext("");
$p->close_image($image);
$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_basic.pdf");
print $buf;
}
catch (PDFlibException $e) {
echo ("PDFlib exception occurred in starter_basic sample:\n" .
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() . ": " .
$e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
exit(1);
}
catch (Throwable $e) {
echo ($e);
exit(1);
}
$p = 0;
?>