Installing extensions

_theworks

Hi im trying to get php_pdf.dll working so i can use it to generate pdf's i've placed it in the ext folder and uncommented extension=php_pdf.dll in the php.ini file. but wen i run this script :

<?php 
// create handle for new PDF document 
$pdf = pdf_new(); 

// open a file 
pdf_open_file($pdf, "philosophy.pdf"); 

// start a new page (A4) 
pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842); 

// get and use a font object 
$arial = pdf_findfont($pdf, "Arial", "host", 1); pdf_setfont($pdf, $arial, 10); 

// print text 
pdf_show_xy($pdf, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,", 50, 750); 
pdf_show_xy($pdf, "than are dreamt of in your philosophy", 50, 730); 

// end page 
pdf_end_page($pdf); 

// close and save file 
pdf_close($pdf); 
?>

which is and example off Generate PDFs with PHP [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]

i get this error saying it cant find the fonts or somthing..

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDFlibException' with message 'Metrics data for 

font 'Arial' not found' in V:\Core\htdocs\Byron\pdf.php:12 Stack trace: #0 

V:\Core\htdocs\Byron\pdf.php(12): pdf_findfont() #1 {main} thrown in    

V:\Core\htdocs\Byron\pdf.php on line 12

i havnt installed it right have I?

bpat1434

It's missing the font I think. Look into adding fonts with PDFlib.

~Brett

rotibakar

Try to replace the "1" at the line :

$arial = pdf_findfont($pdf, "Arial", "host", 1);

with "0" that looks like this :-

$arial = pdf_findfont($pdf, "Arial", "host", 0);

It works on my machine.

bradgrafelman

Also note from the manual entry for [man]PDF_findfont/man that this function is deprecated in favor of [man]PDF_load_font/man

phpexpert

Try following code. This will generate invoice.pdf and saved in c drive of your local system

<?php
$pdf = pdf_new();
pdf_open_file($pdf,"c:\invoice.pdf");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Author", "Uwe Steinmann");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Title", "Test for PHP wrapper of PDFlib 2.0");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Creator", "See Author");
pdf_set_info($pdf, "Subject", "Testing");
pdf_begin_page($pdf, 595, 842);
$font = PDF_load_font($pdf, "Courier","iso8859-1", "");
pdf_setfont($pdf, $font, 10);
pdf_show_xy($pdf, "India", 100, 100);
pdf_end_page($pdf);
pdf_close($pdf);
?>