imagick , page break in pdf in php imagick - php

Question

i am using php imagick to create a image and than convert to pdf. using php imagick. i coded this:
$image = new Imagick();
$height = 800; //height of the page;
$image->newImage(794, $height, "#f5f5f5");
$image->setImageFormat("jpg");
$card = new Imagick('card.jpg'); ; //get single card
$l_align = 190; //left alignment
for($i=0; $i < 4; $i++) //for creating multiple cards on a page
{
$image->compositeImage($card, Imagick::COMPOSITE_DEFAULT,10, ($l_align*$i)+10);
$image->compositeImage($card, Imagick::COMPOSITE_DEFAULT, 390, ($l_align*$i)+10);
}
$image->setResolution(72, 72);
$image->resetIterator();
$combined = $image->appendImages(true);
$image->setImageFormat("pdf");
$combined->writeImages( 'card.pdf', true );
header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="card.pdf"');
echo file_get_contents('card.pdf');
and get something like this
in pdf format . Now i want to page break after every 6 cards print in pdf . i am using imagick . please help me. thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You are using the wrong function for adding images as new pages. You should be using addImage which adds the new image as a separate page, rather than append which just tacks them onto the bottom of the current image.
An example of this working is:
$combined = null;
$images = [
'../../../images/Source1.jpg',
'../../../images/Source2.png',
];
foreach ($images as $image) {
if ($combined == null) {
$combined = new Imagick(realpath($image));
}
else {
$card = new Imagick(realpath($image)); ; //get single card
$combined->addImage($card);
}
}
$combined->setImageFormat("pdf");
$combined->writeImages( './card.pdf', true );
btw there is weird stuff going on in your code example - you're only even attempting to add one image, and what is 'resetIterator' doing in there?