text_output/starter_textline
Demonstrate various options for placing a text line.
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<?php
/*
* Starter text line:
* Demonstrate various options for placing a text line
*
* Place a text line with different font sizes.
* Output overlined, stroke out, and underlined text.
* Output text and define character spacing, work spacing, or horizontal
* scaling.
* Output text with a defined fill color. Output text including its outlines
* with a defined stroke color.
* Place text into a box at various positions. Place text completely into a box
* with automatic scaling if required.
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9
* Required data: none
*/
// This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary.
$searchpath = dirname(__FILE__,3)."/input";
$x = 10;
$xt = 280;
$y = 800;
$yoff = 50;
$textline = "Giant Wing Paper Plane";
try {
// create a new PDFlib object
$p = new PDFlib();
$p->set_option("searchpath={" . $searchpath . "}");
// This means we must check return values of load_font() etc.
$p->set_option("errorpolicy=return");
// Set an output path according to the name of the topic
if ($p->begin_document("", "") == 0) {
echo("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
exit(1);
}
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
$p->set_info("Title", "Starter Text Line");
// Start Page
$p->begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
$font = $p->load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "unicode", "");
if ($font == 0) {
echo("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
exit(1);
}
// Set the font with a font size of 14
$p->setfont($font, 14);
// Place the text line without any options applied
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y, "");
// Output descriptive text
$p->fit_textline("fit_textline() without any options", $xt, $y,
"fontsize=12");
// Place the text with a different font size
$optlist = "fontsize=22";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Place stroke out text
$optlist = "strikeout";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Place underlined text
$optlist = "underline underlinewidth=7% underlineposition=-20%";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Place overlined text
$optlist = "overline";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Place the text with a horizontal scaling of 150%
$optlist = "horizscaling=150%";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Place the text with a character spacing of 30% of the font size
$optlist = "charspacing=30%";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Place the text with a word spacing of 50% of the font size
$optlist = "wordspacing=50%";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Place the text with a different fill color
$optlist = "fillcolor={rgb 0.5 0.2 0.5}";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist);
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y, "fontsize=12");
// Place the text including its outlines using a text rendering mode of
// 2 for "filling and stroking text" and different fill and stroke
// colors
$optlist =
"fontsize=22 fillcolor={rgb 0.6 0.3 0.6} strokecolor={gray 0} " .
"strokewidth=0.4 textrendering=2";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist);
// Output descriptive text
$p->fit_textline("fillcolor={rgb 0.6 0.3 0.6} strokecolor={gray 0} ",
$xt, $y+10, "fontsize=12");
$p->fit_textline("strokewidth=0.4 textrendering=2 fontsize=22",
$xt, $y-5, "fontsize=12");
// Place the text with its outlines using a text rendering mode of
// 1 for "stroking text" and a stroke color of black
$optlist =
"fontsize=22 strokecolor={gray 0} strokewidth=0.4 textrendering=1";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist);
// Output descriptive text
$p->fit_textline("strokecolor={gray 0} strokewidth=0.4", $xt, $y+10,
"fontsize=12");
$p->fit_textline("textrendering=1 fontsize=22", $xt, $y-=5,
"fontsize=12");
// Place the text in a box with default positioning and fitting
$optlist = "boxsize={200 20} showborder";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y+3, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Place the text in a box on the top right
$optlist = "boxsize={200 20} position={top right} showborder";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y+3, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Use "fitmethod=clip" to place the text in a box not large enough to
// show the complete text. The text will be clipped.
$optlist = "boxsize={130 20} fitmethod=clip showborder";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y+3, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Fit the text into the box automatically with "fitmethod=auto".
// In this case, if the text doesn't fit into the box a distortion
// factor is calculated which makes the text fit into the box. If this
// factor is larger than the "shrinklimit" option the text will
// be distorted by that factor. Otherwise, the font size will be
// be decreased until until the text fits into the box.
// Use "fitmethod=auto" to place the text in a box not large enough to
// show the complete text. The text will be distorted.
$optlist = "boxsize={130 20} fitmethod=auto showborder";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y+3, "fontsize=12"); // description
// Use "fitmethod=auto" to place the text in a box too small to show the
// complete text. The font size will be reduced until the text fits into
// the box.
$optlist = "boxsize={100 20} fitmethod=auto showborder";
$p->fit_textline($textline, $x, $y-=$yoff, $optlist); // sample text
$p->fit_textline($optlist, $xt, $y+3, "fontsize=12"); // description
$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=starter_textline.pdf");
print $buf;
}
catch (PDFlibException $e) {
echo("PDFlib exception occurred in starter_textline sample:\n" .
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() . ": " .
$e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
exit(1);
}
catch (Throwable $e) {
echo($e);
exit(1);
}
$p = 0;
?>