I have one issue about PDF file.
I generate dynamic PDF template (Like Certificate). The file content some fields like Firstname, Lastname, Course type, etc.
I want to write dynamic content into PDF as firstname, lastname etc.
I have tried MPDF, FPDF etc tools, but they are not working. I also used PDF to HTML conversation but after converting HTML regenerates not possible from html into proper format.
Please let me know if anyone have other idea to direct replace content into Existing pdf using PHP.
I have sample pdf files.
I want to replace content into given attachment. This is a demo file I have many files with different templates.
Okay, get away from your thoughts one could easiely change anything in a pdf from PHP.
The one way to do such thing like generating a certificate for anyone is to generate a "blank" pdf and then put in the names with names with a php libarary (like Zend_Pdf or anything else).
To make it short: There is no (easy, free) way to manipulate data in a PDF.
To make it complicated: Yes, there is a way. One have to open the file, read it's content, understand where to search for the variables, manipulate the data and regenerate the pdf with a pdf generator. And yes, i know, it is very complicated, so stay at the short and easy way: Generate a blanko and put in the variables as needed ;)
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I am working with a tool which lets user upload a .csv file.
That csv file contains an address column. I have to use the address from each row in another HTML template. That HTML template is like this
. After creating that template I then need to convert it into a PDF, store the PDF on a file server and give the user a link to the PDF.
I've finished the first two steps - csv upload and created complete template with address, but I'm stuck on how I can convert a template into a PDF.
I have looked into a few php-pdf libraries like fpdf mpdf. I'm facing a problem in creating pdf with html template.
A link to a library wich convert HTML to PDF and works pretty well.
First the link to the library
HTML2PDF
Then some code* to create your PDF using your own generated HTML, where $content is your HTML string.
$html2pdf = new HTML2PDF('P','A4','fr');
$html2pdf->WriteHTML($content);
$html2pdf->Output('exemple.pdf');
*Code taken from the "example page" of the site.
I have used tcpdf in many cases, https://tcpdf.org/
Works well with tables, I have made receipts and accounting related stuff with it. Handle UTF-8 without problems, why it's my way to go.
Only downside is that code is bit long and complicated and it doesn't keep tables as tables in pdf and turns them to divs, so paddings and other styles might be bit trickier to do.
One way is to use webkit based HTML to PDF converter.
Pros are that it is easy to customize and style and to see in the browser how it will look and then you can be sure that it will look as same in PDF as well. You could use CSS and JavaScript as well to style and modify.
Cons are that it is hard to install it on the production server sometimes. But there are web services and APIs that get you covered.
For example one service is https://pdfapi.io. It is free to use. Only when your amounts get bigger, then it will charge like a cup of coffee.
Hope that helps.
I need to create a PDF that will contain employee CVs for an employer to download. The information that needs to go into the CV e.g first_name, last_name etc needs to be extracted from the database and then I need to build the format of the CV with HTML and then make it possible to be downloaded as a PDF.
I know how to get the user info and build the HTML be not sure how to convert it to a PDF afterwards is there a good WordPress plugin to do this?
I know it's a little out of time for answering, I had the same problem some time ago and I didn't find any plugin for doing it. So what I did was integrate fpdf.
It is really easy. Just download the last version from here, save it on one folder on your directory and include it on your function.php.
Then, you will be able to build an html string and generate the pdf file with it. Take a look at the tutorials on the fpdf page, they will be really useful for knowing what tags you will be able to use.
good luck!
I am creating a small application which manipulates PDF file as follows
A customer creates a CSV to a given specification that contains the
name,address, country, ink type, station to use. This CSV could also
include customized tokens which replace tokens that are written
within their PDF Document.
A customer creates a PDF document it could be a standard document
that's exactly the same that gets sent to everyone in their CSV file,
or it could contain special tokens which are replace with specific
contacts details within the CSV.
I've briefly looked at http://us.php.net/pdf and FPDF, but I was wondering what specific technique I'd use to achieve this.
I was thinking I'd insert an address tokens string where I want the address to go, and then use some function to update those tokens in the PDF document.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have php experience, but not with editing / generating pdf documents from php.
You can use MPDF lib to generate PDF. In it you just need to pass your HTML content.
From half the PHP devs I talk to they recommend this:
http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/setapdf-linkreplacer/
For your problem - I believe you need to buy it but there is an eval copy for your devving needs.
HTHs - Thanks,
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I am using Tcpdf library to generate pdf.
please check url for example. http://www.tcpdf.org/examples.php
If you kept all the contact information on a single page you could use poppler-utils https://packages.debian.org/sid/poppler-utils to pdfmerge the page of contact info with the bulk of the PDF. Use tcpdf library to create the one page with contact info.
We have a high-resolution PDF (for printing) which has some form fields on it. We would like to have an HTML form which submits to the PDF, which is then placed into the respective fields.
I found a solution on google: http://koivi.com/fill-pdf-form-fields/
However, with that solution you only get an FDF file... And the demo does not work for me, opening the FDF file simply downloads another FDF file.
Since this PDF will be available to the public we would like to keep it as simple as possible. If we must open our original PDF and import this FDF file, we need a different solution (which I'm not sure is what the FDF file is for, since it didn't work).
A related post talking about .net framework had the same idea, but there were only paid commercial solutions: From HTML form to PDF
The PHP solutions I have found so far are for creating a new PDF, which is not what I need. Our PDF is created with Adobe Illustrator (or a similar adobe product) and is high-res with embedded fonts, svg and image content.
The form elements are in place, we just need to get the data to there.
Update April 11, 2013:
Since posting this question I have been utilizing FPDF on multiple projects where I needed to accomplish this goal. Although it cannot seem to "merge" template PDFs with the provided data, it can create the PDF from scratch.
One example I have used, I had a high resolution PNG for printing (similar to initial question) which we had to write the customer's name and today's date clearly in the center. I simply made the background of the PDF using FPDF->Image() and write the text afterwards using FPDF->Text().
It was very simple after all, you will need to look up the paper sizes to determine the X,Y,W,H of the image and then base your text fields relative to those numbers.
There was even a Form Filling extension, but I couldn't get it to work.
It seems as though I should answer my own question, although Visions answer may be better (seems to be deleted?). I used Vasiliy Faronov's link which was a comment to my main question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1890835/200445
Here I found how to install pdftk and run a command to merge (flatten) my FDF and PDF files. I still used the "hacky" way to generate an FDF using Koivi's FDF Generator but it works for the most part.
One caveat is that some characters, like single and double quotes are not inserted correctly. It may be an issue of escaping the fields, but I could not find an answer.
Regardless, my PDF form generator is working, but anyone with a similar issue should look for a better solution.
There are number of tools which are not paid like itextsharp. try the following https://web.archive.org/web/20211020001747/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/030211-1.aspx Hope this code will help you. I have tried it its worked for me. If you can pay then there are number of paid tools which convert the HtML to PDF like ABCPDF etc.This example is in Asp.net and i am sure if you can convert it in PHP it will work for you too.
I am looking for some way to code a function (I'm open to any language or library at this point) to take an already existing PDF file as input and return a modified PDF file that links certain words to different URLs. I know PHP and ColdFusion both have good tools for dealing with PDF's, but I haven't been able to find anything that works.
I've been doing this by going through Acrobat and linking the text by hand and was wondering if there was any way to automate the procedure.
Thanks!
With ColdFusion you can extract the text with DDX (see Extracting text from a PDF document on the page), modify it using search/replace and generate new document.
If I understand what you're trying to do, you should be able to use CFPDF (http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Tags_p-q_02.html#2922772) to read the pdf file into a ColdFusion variable, replace whatever content you want in that variable, then save the content back to pdf.