PDF text headings

[access9]

I would like to create a text heading in a PDF document. I tried to draw a gray rectangle across the page, then place the text in position along the same x coordinate, but the gray line is over the text.

Am I missing something, or going about this all wrong?

Thanks,
Brian

[dannys]

Maybe if you show us what you've got so far, we'd be able to suggest something.

[theslinky]

Perhaps the order in which you print the text and rectangle matter, so one is on top of the other.

Like dannys said, show us the code. Perhaps there may be something else incorrect 🙂

-sridhar

[access9]

Everything displays fine, except I can't figure out how to create text with a background.

$boldfont = pdf_findfont ($pdf,'Helvetica-Bold','winansi',0);
$regfont = pdf_findfont ($pdf,'Helvetica','winansi',0);

// report name heading
pdf_setfont ($pdf, $boldfont, 20);
pdf_show_xy ($pdf, 'Blah Blah Report', 75, 560);

// date footer
pdf_setfont ($pdf, $regfont, 10);
pdf_show_xy ($pdf, date("m-d-Y"), 75, 10);

// insert logo into top-left
$logo = pdf_open_image_file ($pdf, "jpeg", "./logo.jpg");
pdf_place_image ($pdf, $logo, 20, 530, 0.10);
pdf_close_image ($pdf, $logo);

// draw grey rectangle
pdf_setcolor($pdf, "both", "gray", 0.7);
pdf_rect($pdf, 36, 510, 720, 10);
pdf_closepath($pdf);
pdf_fill_stroke($pdf);

// set column headings
pdf_setfont ($pdf, $regfont, 12);
pdf_show_xy ($pdf, "Field1", 36, 510);

$b_len = pdf_stringwidth ($pdf, "Field1");
$b_len = $b_len + 50;
pdf_show_xy ($pdf, "Field2", $b_len, 510);

$s_len = pdf_stringwidth ($pdf, "Field2");
$s_len = $s_len + $b_len + 20;
pdf_show_xy ($pdf, "Field3", $s_len, 510);

$d_len = pdf_stringwidth ($pdf, "Field3");
$d_len = $s_len + $d_len + 400;
pdf_show_xy ($pdf, "Field4", $d_len, 510);

[theslinky]

Yup, i think the order matters.

print the rectangle first and then print the heading text.

-sridhar

[access9]

That was the first thing I thought of too, but I am printing the rectangle first, and the text is still displayed underneath.

[access9]

I solved it. I needed to set the color back black:

pdf_setcolor($pdf, "both", "rgb", 0, 0, 0);

thanks anyway!