I have issue with PDF generated from CKEditor.
I have some text typed in CKEditor:
HTML source:
Next, this text is saved in DB.
My CKEditor config looks like:
Further, above text is fetched from DB in controller, and PDF file is generated using TCPDF:
public function createRegulationPDF(){
require_once('TCPDF/tcpdf.php');
// create new PDF document
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
// set document information
$pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
$pdf->SetPrintHeader(false);
$pdf->SetPrintFooter(false);
// set default monospaced font
$pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED);
// set image scale factor
$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);
// set font
$pdf->SetFont('freeserif', '', 10);
// add a page
$pdf->AddPage();
// GET CONTENT FROM DB
$html = $this->view->settings['reg_statement'];
// output the HTML content
$pdf->writeHTML($html, true, false, true, false, '');
....
And the final point, generated PDF:
The question is: what is this weird (the box) selected char?
And how to avoid it?
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I´m trying to generate a PDF file that contains Urdu text. I have tried several fonts like: Jameel Noori Nastaleeq, Alvi Nastaleeq, Arial Unicode, etc. But some characters do not show properly. When I copy the text from the PDF and paste it to another program like Notepad the text is showed correctly.
I´m using this code to convert the .ttf file to TCPDF format.
require_once('TCPDF/tcpdf.php');
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
$fontname = TCPDF_FONTS::addTTFfont('includes/Fonts/JameelNooriNastaleeqRegular.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);""
That code created three files: jameelnoorinastaleeq.php, jameelnoorinastaleeq.z, jameelnoorinastaleeq.ctg.z.
Then in the PHP page this is my code:
require('TCPDF/tcpdf.php');
// create new PDF document
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
// set margins
$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, PDF_MARGIN_TOP, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
$pdf->SetHeaderMargin(PDF_MARGIN_HEADER);
$pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);
// set some language dependent data:
$lg = Array();
$lg['a_meta_charset'] = 'UTF-8';
$lg['a_meta_dir'] = 'rtl';
$lg['a_meta_language'] = 'fa';
$lg['w_page'] = 'page';
// set some language-dependent strings (optional)
$pdf->setLanguageArray($lg);
// ---------------------------------------------------------
// set font
$pdf->SetFont('jameelnoorinastaleeq','',12);
// add a page
$pdf->AddPage();
// Urdu content
$htmlurdu = '<span color="#660000">Urdu example:</span><br />احساسات: اکساہٹ(جوش۔تحریک)؛اعصابی؛
<br />احساسات: اُوپر تک کھدائی کا؛"سوراخ کرنا(نقب لگانا)بل کھودنےیا بنانے کا۔؛جڑ سے اکھاڑنے۔کھود کر نکالنےکا""احساس؛"<br />احساسات: اکڑن(سختی)؛اعضاء(بازو اور ٹانگوں)کے جوڑوں کا؛(بے ڈھنگے پن(اناڑی پن)کا؛)
<br />احساسات: اینٹھن(مروڑ۔کھچاؤ)؛بیرونی(خارجی)طورپر؛';
$pdf->WriteHTML($htmlurdu, true, 0, true, 0);
//Close and output PDF document
$pdf->Output('testUrdu.pdf', 'I');
The Urdu Text is showed like this:
???????: ??????(?????????)????????
I have tried using an external website to convert the JameelNooriNastaleeq.ttf file to TCPDF format. I used this site http://fonts.palettize.me/ then copied the generated files to TCPDF/fonts directory but it didn´t work. Urdu text still not showing properly.
I tried the solution posted here: Urdu supported PDF library compatible with php. But there are some Urdu characters that readability is poor with font ARIAL UNICODE MS. I tried to do the same with font Jameel Noori Nastaleeq, but didn´t work. The PDF shows many spaces and very few characters, when I copy the text to another editor it is showed properly.
I have spent several hours trying to fix this problem. When showing English characters there isn´t any problem, but Urdu is not working. Sometimes it displayed "?" other times showed spaces.
Please help me!
I have a PHP project in which I use TCPDF. I had a PHP File which creates an HTML theme with bootstrap. Inside this file I include my pdfGeneration.php. It looks like that:
require_once('tcpdf/tcpdf.php');
$pdfAuthor = "Test";
$pdfName = "Test.pdf";
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
$pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
$pdf->SetAuthor($pdfAuthor);
$pdf->SetTitle($pdfName);
$pdf->SetSubject($pdfName);
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));
$pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED);
$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, PDF_MARGIN_TOP, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
$pdf->SetHeaderMargin(PDF_MARGIN_HEADER);
$pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);
$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 10);
$pdf->AddPage();
$htmlContent = 'Test';
$pdf->writeHTML($htmlContent, true, false, true, false, '');
ob_end_clean();
$outputFile = 'myServerPathHere';
$pdf->Output($outputFile, 'F');
echo '<span>PDF Creation finished. <a href="' . $outputFilePath . pdfName'" target='blank'>You can download the file here</a></span>';
If I don't include this pdfGeneration everything works fine. But when I include it I got only a blank white site with that span in it as a result. The rest of the HTML code that is located inside the file that includes the pdfGeneration is totally lost. I can't find an error?!
My goal is a site where the pdf is generated and in the best case, the pdf is directly opened in a new tab. I don't find a solution for that so I solved it with the link. But my first problem is the missing HTML.
Excuse my question, I found the error myself. The function "ob_end_clean(); " is the error. PHP Docs: ob_end_clean - Clean (erase) the output buffer and turn off output buffering. This probably causes the entire previously generated HTML code to be lost. If I remove the command it works.
I am using tcpdf to produce PDF's from HTML. Everything is working fine and when I view the PDF on my computer I can see it just fine, but for some reason when I look at the PDF on my iPhone it shows up blank. All I can see are the borders I created that contain values in them but there are no values showing.
Here is my code
require_once('/tcpdf/tcpdf/config/lang/eng.php');
require_once('/tcpdf/tcpdf/tcpdf.php');
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);
$pdf->setLanguageArray($l);
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 10);
$pdf->AddPage();
$html = file_get_contents('http://www.website.com/invoice.php?invoice_id='.$invoice_id);
$pdf->writeHTML($html, true, false, true, false, '');
$pdf->lastPage();
$pdf->Output('/html/admin/emailattachements/invoice.pdf', 'F');
In that last line. I copy the PDF to that directory when I grab it later with an email script and sends it off to a customer.
Edit: SOLVED
I discovered it was the font I was using to produce the PDF. iPhone's can't read dejavusans :) I changed it to 'times' and it works fine
Edit: Update
Since this article I have had to create many more PDF's with tcpdf and while I can't really explain why some fonts were not working while others where I recently applied some of the suggestions over at http://www.tcpdf.org/fonts.php and applied
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('/path-to-font/DejaVuSans.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
By adding a font manually and setting the font file path and uploading the file manually I was able to get existing font's that did not work and actually get them to work.
Change the below lines:
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 10);
To:
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, false, 'ISO-8859-1', false);
$pdf->SetFont('helvetica', '', 10, '', true);
And then check.
Not sure how its working for you without the AddFont method, but I had the same issue and adding the fourth param $subset = false fixes it.
$subset (mixed) if true embedd only a subset of the font (stores only
the information related to the used characters); if false embedd full
font; if 'default' uses the default value set using
setFontSubsetting(). This option is valid only for TrueTypeUnicode
fonts. If you want to enable users to change the document, set this
parameter to false. If you subset the font, the person who receives
your PDF would need to have your same font in order to make changes to
your PDF. The file size of the PDF would also be smaller because you
are embedding only part of a font.
$pdf->AddFont('dejavusans', '', 'dejavusans', false);
$pdf->AddFont('dejavusans', 'B', 'dejavusans', false);
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 10);
dejavusans fixes a number of issues with multibyte characters so not possible to simple change to helvetica. By making this change we found the PDF to more than double in size.
This is kinda the same idea as #user3548394 but only have to make this change once.
Check the font type you are using, is like html, but it won't fallback.
Create pdf with static text and check.
I have been using TCPDF for sometime. It's simple to use, outputs low size PDF and is under active development.
Following is the code for a page which should only have Hello World and a footer showing page number. However I get an additional Horizontal Line at the top of the page.It's bugging me. How do I get rid of it?
<?php
require_once('config/lang/eng.php');
require_once('tcpdf.php');
// create new PDF document
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
// set document information
$pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
// set default header data
// set header and footer fonts
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));
// set default monospaced font
$pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED);
//set margins
//$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, PDF_MARGIN_TOP, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
//$pdf->SetHeaderMargin(PDF_MARGIN_HEADER);
$pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);//if i comment this out the lower line disappears
//set auto page breaks
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);
//set image scale factor
//$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);
//set some language-dependent strings
$pdf->setLanguageArray($l);
// ---------------------------------------------------------
// set font
$pdf->SetFont('helvetica', '', 10);
// add a page
$pdf->AddPage();
// define some HTML content with style
$html = <<<EOF
Hello World
EOF;
// output the HTML content
$pdf->writeHTML($html, true, false, true, false, '');
// reset pointer to the last page
$pdf->lastPage();
// ---------------------------------------------------------
//Close and output PDF document
$pdf->Output('example_061.pdf', 'I');
?>
Solution:
$pdf->SetPrintHeader(false);
$pdf->SetPrintFooter(false);
Changing or eliminating Header & Footer in TCPDF
just do this $pdf->setPrintHeader(false); and the line at the top will go away
The horizontal line is defined on the default Header().
You can either override the Header() method as on example n. 3 or disable the header as on the example n. 2.
Check the TCPDF website at http://www.tcpdf.org and consult the official forum for further information.
In case this is not solved for anyone else here and they are using FPDI to import a template, try looking at the calculated page height from FPDI and the resultant page height from TCPDF. For me they did not match, and to get rid of the black line I had to add 8 to the page height, and subtract 7 from the y-ordinate value in the useTemplate function in addition to setPrintHeader(false), like this:
$tplidx = $pdf->ImportPage($i);
$s = $pdf->getTemplateSize($tplidx);
// TCPDF STUFF, AddPage(), etc.
$pdf->useTemplate($tplidx,0,-7,$s['w'],$s['h']+8);
I need to code a PHP script that would let me generate a pdf file which displays a member ID card (something like a credit card used to identify oneself) at a certain resolution.
Let me explain:
I do have the basic blueprint of the card in png file format. The script needs to drop in a member's name and birthday along with a serial. So far, no problem - there are plenty of good working PHP libraries out there.
My problem is to ensure that the resulting pdf (the generated image of the card, to be precise) meets a certain resolution (preferably 300dpi), so that printing it would look right.
Any ideas?
EDIT
I solved it using the TCPDF library which lets you scale images at a certain resolution.
Get it here: http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf
EDIT #Don
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/tcpdf/config/lang/eng.php');
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/tcpdf/tcpdf.php');
// create new PDF document
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT,
true, 'UTF-8', false);
// set document information
$pdf->SetCreator('SO-youth');
// remove default header/footer
$pdf->setPrintHeader(false);
$pdf->setPrintFooter(false);
// set default monospaced font
$pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED);
//set margins
$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, PDF_MARGIN_TOP, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
//set auto page breaks
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);
//set image scale factor
$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);
// set font
$pdf->SetFont('courier', '', 10);
// add a page
$pdf->AddPage();
// set JPEG quality
$pdf->setJPEGQuality(100);
$cred = <<<EOT
<p>
<b>{$userdata->first_name} {$userdata->last_name}</b><br/>
<span style="font-size: 80%;">{$userdata->geburtstag}</span>
</p>
EOT;
$id = <<<EOT
<span style="font-size: 60%;">{$userdata->club_id}</span>
EOT;
$pdf->Image(dirname(__FILE__).'/img/clubcard.jpg',
10, 10, 85.6, 53.98, null, null, null, false, 300);
$pdf->writeHTMLCell(60, 15, 50.5, 20.5, $cred);
$pdf->writeHTMLCell(50, 20, 77, 50.5, $id);
//Close and output PDF document
$pdf->Output($userdata->filename, 'F');
I would use Imagemagick for this purpose, along with Imagick to be able to access it directly from php.
You will then be able to take the original image, add some text to it, and output (or store) as pdf, with something like this:
$image = new Imagick($filename);
$draw = new ImagickDraw();
$draw->setFont($font);
$draw->setFontSize($fontSize);
$image->annotateImage($draw, $xpos, $ypos, $rotation, $text);
// Changes the dpi
$image->setImageResolution(200,200);
I can't find the correct code for outputting/storing it as pdf quickly, but that should be documented somewhere on the Imagemagick site.