I have added blank pdf file in my ci project and wants to edit it dynamically.
I mean I have created some blank text fields in my pdf and wants to fill the value with ci code. please answer me is this possible or not.
Thanks.
Rather than editing an existing PDF you should use a PHP/PDF generator that creates a PDF from scratch and uses your supplied data in the PDF that gets created.
There are lots of open source libraries out there that can do this for you. Just search 'PHP PDF' but here is an example of one I've used with great success and it's easy to use:
https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf
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I want to create a PDF so that the user can only read it but not edit it. How i can do this with PHP or some lib for PHP. Now i using PDFtk, but I can't do to change the editing I was shown Russian letters in PDF form.
for you to be able to create a pdf file u need to download fpdf in the particular folder you are working with
check this link out, it will help you on how to go about it
https://youtu.be/0KiqCSy0jHA
if it helps let me know
I am trying to create an editable HTML textarea component using TCPDF API library. I want to display a scrollable text box on the screen.
Can this be done?
Current TCPDF examples include these: https://tcpdf.org/examples/
I know PDFs can have editable components, but I am not sure how to create them with TCPDF, if it is at all possible.
TD;DR: how can I generate a page with a scrollable textarea using PHP + TCPDF?
Linked Answer using another library (mPDF):
Note that while How to create editable Pdf form in php may work, it does not make use of TCPDF library. My existing codebase relies heavily on TCPDF, I would like to explore the possibility of using TCPDF before I consider adding another library ...
i.e. I rather have an answer of "Not possible" than to use another library at this time.
It looks like the issue is two-fold.
First, you can use a typical form example, like here: https://tcpdf.org/examples/example_054/
However, you cannot see editable fields in a browser, at least you cannot in Mozilla Firefox 56.0.2 as the time of this writing. (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1006115)
What you need to do is open the generated PDF in a different viewer that supports editable form fields, such as Adobe PDF reader/other.
Then you can fill out the textarea and if text size exceeds the area of the form element, it will have scroll bars added to the textarea.
I recently have a project, I am creating a booking system.
there's only one thing that I need to do to finish it.
I want my web form to be converted into a dynamic PDF file.
Means, when a user makes a booking, he will fill up the web form, after all fields are filled up, it will be saved to the database and the web form will be converted to PDF that will be email to the client's email address.
Is there a plug-in that I need to use? How can I make my form be converted to PDF and be sent to user??
If there is, can you kindly give me a link to it?
I would gladly appreciate any help from you guys.
Thanks
You can use the libary TCPDF to accomplish this. The libary can create a PDF from HTML including HTML forms. Look at this example, it will help you farther:
PDF Example: http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_014.pdf
PHP tutorial of PDF example: http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_014.phps
Download link of TCPDF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/files/
i will programming a tool that can generating a PDF.
i´ve generated PDF´s with FPDF with static data´s in the past.
And now i will that the pdf will be generated by live editing.
e.g: the user can look the finaly pdf page and click on the law fields to type the text.
has anyone ideas?
Thanks !
It is not possible to directly edit PDF file in your browser. All you can do is just get input from user and generate PDF file based on it using fpdf(better use tfpdf for utf support) on your server.
How about you use a tool like TinyMce to edit your data ,grab the output html and create a PDF out of it using MPDF or html2pdf
I'm wondering is this is possible or not?
Suppose i have div containing 10 Questions,Options and Answers.
Now,if user want to copy content of that div he has to manually select and copy the content using mouse and paste on his editor(Ms Word or some other editors).
But what i want is when user clicks the download button the content gets copied to the pdf(or other file) file and can be downloaded.
You need to use fpdf for that
Here's a nice tutorial of how to create a pdf file using PHP
Reference
FPDF is probably the best library to create PDF's in PHP
Check out fpdf website here :
http://www.fpdf.org/
Best for
Multiple layers of text/images
Watermarks
Barcodes much more
Do check out the Scripts section in the website
Great PDF lib for creating PFDs is mpdf just try example, you would be amazed how easy it is: http://www.mpdf1.com/
i think, you need fpdf lib.
to create txto other similiar file from the content of the page:
open/create file
read_page = read the page content
file_put_content(read_page)
file is ready to download