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Document: ezcDocumentPdfTcpdfDriver

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Class: ezcDocumentPdfTcpdfDriver

Pdf driver based on TCPDF [source]
TCPDF is a PHP based PDF renderer, originally based on FPDF and available at http://tcpdf.org.
The TCPDF class has to be loaded before this driver can be used. TCPDF has some bad coding practices, like:
  • Throws lots of warnings and notices, which you might want to silence by temporarily changing the error reporting level
  • Reads and writes several global variables, which might or might not interfere with your application code
  • Uses eval() in several places, which results in non-cacheable OP-Codes.
The driver can be used by setting the respective option on the PDF document wrapper:
1.   // Load the docbook document and create a PDF from it
2.     $pdf = new ezcDocumentPdf();
3.   $pdf->options->driver = new ezcDocumentPdfTcpdfDriver();
4.   $pdf->createFromDocbook( $docbook );
5.   file_put_contents( __FILE__ . '.pdf', $pdf );

Parents

ezcDocumentPdfDriver
   |
   --ezcDocumentPdfTcpdfDriver

Inherited Constants

From ezcDocumentPdfDriver:
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::FONT_BOLD    Bold text
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::FONT_OBLIQUE    Italic text
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::FONT_PLAIN    Normal text
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::FONT_UNDERLINE    Underlined text

Member Variables

protected array $currentFont = array(
'name' => 'sans-serif',
'style' => self::FONT_PLAIN,
'size' => 12,
)
Name and style of default font / currently used font
protected haruPage $currentpage
Reference to the page currently rendered on
protected Tcpdf $document
Tcpdf Document instance
protected array $fonts = array(
'sans-serif' => array(
self::FONT_PLAIN => 'times',
self::FONT_BOLD => 'timesb',
self::FONT_OBLIQUE => 'timesi',
3 => 'timesbi',
),'serif'=>array(self::FONT_PLAIN=>'helvetica',self::FONT_BOLD=>'helveticab',self::FONT_OBLIQUE=>'helveticai',3=>'helveticabi',),'monospace'=>array(self::FONT_PLAIN=>'courier',self::FONT_BOLD=>'courierb',self::FONT_OBLIQUE=>'courieri',3=>'courierbi',),'Symbol'=>array(self::FONT_PLAIN=>'symbol',),'ZapfDingbats'=>array(self::FONT_PLAIN=>'zapfdingbats',),)
Array with fonts, and their equivalents for bold and italic markup. This array will be extended when loading new fonts, but contains the builtin fonts by default.

The fourth value for each font is bold + oblique, the index is the bitwise and combination of the repective combinations. Each font MUST have at least a value for FONT_PLAIN assigned.
protected array $pages
Page instances, given as an array, indexed by their page number starting with 0.

Method Summary

public void __construct( )
Construct driver
public float calculateWordWidth( $word )
Calculate the rendered width of the current word
public void createPage( $width, $height )
Create a new page
public void drawImage( $file, $type, $x, $y, $width, $height )
Draw image
public void drawWord( $x, $y, $word )
Draw word at given position
public float getCurrentLineHeight( )
Get current line height
public string save( )
Generate and return PDF
public void setTextFormatting( $type, $value )
Set text formatting option
public void trySetFont( $name, $style )
Try to set font

Inherited Methods

From ezcDocumentPdfDriver :
public abstract float ezcDocumentPdfDriver::calculateWordWidth()
Calculate the rendered width of the current word
public abstract void ezcDocumentPdfDriver::createPage()
Create a new page
public abstract void ezcDocumentPdfDriver::drawImage()
Draw image
public abstract void ezcDocumentPdfDriver::drawWord()
Draw word at given position
public abstract float ezcDocumentPdfDriver::getCurrentLineHeight()
Get current line height
public abstract string ezcDocumentPdfDriver::save()
Generate and return PDF
public abstract void ezcDocumentPdfDriver::setTextFormatting()
Set text formatting option

Methods

__construct

void __construct( )
Construct driver
Creates a new document instance maintaining all document context.

calculateWordWidth

float calculateWordWidth( string $word )
Calculate the rendered width of the current word
Calculate the width of the passed word, using the currently set text formatting options.

Parameters

Name Type Description
$word string  

Redefinition of

Method Description
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::calculateWordWidth() Calculate the rendered width of the current word

createPage

void createPage( float $width, float $height )
Create a new page
Create a new page in the PDF document with the given width and height.

Parameters

Name Type Description
$width float  
$height float  

Redefinition of

Method Description
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::createPage() Create a new page

drawImage

void drawImage( string $file, string $type, float $x, float $y, float $width, float $height )
Draw image
Draw image at the defined position. The first parameter is the (absolute) path to the image file, and the second defines the type of the image. If the driver cannot handle this aprticular image type, it should throw an exception.
The further parameters define the location where the image should be rendered and the dimensions of the image in the rendered output. The dimensions do not neccesarily match the real image dimensions, and might require some kind of scaling inside the driver depending on the used backend.

Parameters

Name Type Description
$file string  
$type string  
$x float  
$y float  
$width float  
$height float  

Redefinition of

Method Description
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::drawImage() Draw image

drawWord

void drawWord( float $x, float $y, string $word )
Draw word at given position
Draw the given word at the given position using the currently set text formatting options.
The coordinate specifies the left bottom edge of the words bounding box.

Parameters

Name Type Description
$x float  
$y float  
$word string  

Redefinition of

Method Description
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::drawWord() Draw word at given position

getCurrentLineHeight

float getCurrentLineHeight( )
Get current line height
Return the current line height in millimeter based on the current font and text rendering settings.

Redefinition of

Method Description
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::getCurrentLineHeight() Get current line height

save

string save( )
Generate and return PDF
Return the generated binary PDF content as a string.

Redefinition of

Method Description
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::save() Generate and return PDF

setTextFormatting

void setTextFormatting( string $type, mixed $value )
Set text formatting option
Set a text formatting option. The names of the options are the same used in the PCSS files and need to be translated by the driver to the proper backend calls.

Parameters

Name Type Description
$type string  
$value mixed  

Redefinition of

Method Description
ezcDocumentPdfDriver::setTextFormatting() Set text formatting option

trySetFont

void trySetFont( string $name, int $style )
Try to set font
Stays with the old font, if the newly specified font is not available.
If the font does not support the given style, it falls back to the style used beforehand, and if this is also not support the plain style will be used.

Parameters

Name Type Description
$name string  
$style int  

Last updated: Mon, 29 Jun 2009