I am using the PHP extension FPDF to create PDF documents. I believe I have the margins set to 1" all the way around with justified text, but when I create a PDF document, download it and open it in Acrobat, I see the left margin is 1" but the right margin is about 1.2". I've gone through fpdf.php looking for the issue and cannot find it.
$oPdf = new myPDF('P', 'mm', 'letter');
$oPdf->Open();
$oPdf->SetMargins(25.4,25.4,25.4,25.4);
//set default font/colors
$oPdf->SetFont('Times', '', 12);
$oPdf->SetTextColor(0,0,0);
$oPdf->SetFillColor(255, 255, 255);
//add the page
$oPdf->AddPage();
$oPdf->AliasNbPages();
If I change the top and left margin values, the document reflects the changes. If I change the bottom or right, there is no change. I've seen how the bottom can be changed wth set auto default page break, answered elsewhere. My question is how can I change the right margin and it actually take effect in my document? I have a feeling that this has to do with the measurement of the text when FPDF calculates whether the justified text will fit on the line. I've checked the width of the line and it outputs 165.1 (which is 6.5 inches x 25.4mm) Completely stumped.
Ok, I feel kind of dumb, but hopefully this will help others. I use the FpdfMulticell (See http://www.interpid.eu/fpdf-multicell) for more control over cells and other parts of displaying the content on the PDF document. This is great and all, except for the redundancies that are created. The components of this function require width and height for the cell to be created. This is where the problem was. For some reason I was passing 160 to it rather than 165.1. 6.5" x 25.4 = 165.1. When I go through the references to create the multiCell function within the class, it fixes my problem.
If you're going to use the multicell, I suggest declaring a variable at the beginning of your page such as $pw (i.e., page width) and then instead of passing a constant value, pass the variable. That way your values are uniform and if you want to change it up, then you only have 1 value to change. Make sure you comment so you know what the purpose of that variable is.
$oMulticell = new FpdfMulticell($oPdf);
$pw = 165.1
//Make sure that the content is long enough to go to another line or you won't
//notice the difference with the justified text
$content = "Write some text here Write some text here Write some text here Write some text here Write some text here Write some text here Write some text here Write some text here ";
$oMulticell->multiCell($pw,10,$content,0,"J",1,0,0,0,0);
This works!
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We have an application that takes text from a form (it's ultimately a spreadsheet) and pulls it from the database and creates a pdf document. Using fdpf and everything is working well. But there is a header portion of the doc that is currently plain text posting from a <texarea>, and we want to upgrade that portion to rich text using tinymce. I can easily use https://github.com/spipu/html2pdf to create a nice, full doc from the text, but it's only meant to be a small portion of the doc. This heading is not the "Header", which is taken from a jpg image.
I've tried several approaches including creating a separate doc with the rich text (html) portion and attempting to merge the two, which works great if the two are separate pages, but not so well when trying position one inside another when the one is of varying sizes, shapes, lines. Another thing I've tried is using imagemagick to convert the pdf taken from the rich text portion to a jpg and then inserting the image into the other pdf. This works great unless the heading contains mostly text(as it will).Images come through well but text becomes unreadable with my lack if image manipulation prowess.
using fpdf
class foo extends FPDF
{
public function fooBody ($bar) {
`````````````````````````````````
$data is obj containing db entities
current lines for the heading (having to remove html rn)
$data->heading = preg_replace("/ /",'',$data->heading);
$this->MultiCell(190, 3, trim(strip_tags($data->heading)), 0, 'L', 0);
$foo= new foo();
$foo->fooBody(bar);
add page...
output()..
etc.
wish I could just do something like below
$html2pdf->writeHTML($data34->heading);
$richTextHeading = $html2pdf->output('file.pdf', 'S');
foo->MultiCell(190, 3,$richTextHeading, 0, 'L', 0);
I want to use the same doc I have now with fpdf but somehow include some converted html for a small portion of it, but am currently only capable of having one (current doc) or the other (html doc).
If anyone comes across this thread, I ended up just using TCPDF, and re-writing my old code to work with TCPDF. Suprisingly I only need to change font names in a few places (Ariel->helvetica) and explicitly state cell height and margins. The old code worked mostly as is, and this
$this->MultiCell(190, 3, trim(strip_tags($data->heading)), 0, 'L', 0);
Is now simply this
$this->writeHTML( $data->heading);
I'm new to tcpdf, creating my first document.
I wonder if there is a way to fit the width of the cell automatically to the content. I currently only see options for fixed size, or taking the whole page width until the end of the line.
I'm aware of GetStringWidth() but having the following problems with it
Why should one bother even for this? Is there a way to just make the cell fit automatically to its contents width?
GetStringWidth() seems to err from time to time, giving shorter results the actual, thus causing the text to be split to the next line. A font is set.
After learning TCPDF more, this is the conclusion:
Cell() and MultiCell() are not intended to be used for just outputting a string and fitting it's length. Instead, Write() and WriteHtml() should be used. Cells exist for the case where you actually want to control the dimentions of the field manually.
Nevertheless, in some cases one may want to compute the width of the cell, such that it takes into account the sizes of the text inside. For this purpose exists GetStringWidth(). (Unfortunately for me it err's from time to time. Maybe I'm not aware of something)
Have an internal "Legacy" application that uses TCPDF to generate a PDF of a checklist. We recently moved from creating a giant string of HTML that described a table, created using the $pdf->writeHTML($myHTMLString); method, to using the MultiCell() methods.
However, we ran into an issue where some text in a description cell would need to run on to a second line, this threw off our layout. As a fix, we created an if block based on 2 variables, one for the string width the other for the actual cell width. (We had 2 instances where the cell width might vary).
If block example:
// Get width of string
$lWidth = $pdf->GetStringWidth(strip_tags($clItem['description']));
// Determine width of cell
$oadWidth = (.01*$width[0])*186;
if ($lWidth < $oadWidth) {
$cHeight = 3.5;
} else {
$cHeight = 7;
}
We then used the variable created by the if block in the MultiCell() like this
$pdf->MultiCell((.01*$width[0])*186, $cHeight, strip_tags($clItem['description']), 1, 'L', 1, 0, '', '', true);
We reused the $cHeight variable for the height params in the other sibling cells so each row of cells had a uniform height. You could most likely reuse this method with any of the other right functions that have a height parameter in TCPDF. Thanks to #shealtiel for the original reference to GetStringWidth()
I am having trouble getting a text field to auto size on a form I'm creating. I am setting the textSize of the properties to 0 in the properties of the TextField but it seems to just use the font set for the document. Here is the code I am using to create the TextField.
$pdf->TextField('description', 195, 32, array('multiline'=>true, 'lineWidth'=>0, 'borderStyle'=>'none', 'textSize'=>0), array('v'=>$description));
I know a kinda round-about way of possibly fixing this..
Before your textfield code, what ever you would like your font to be (not the default for the entire document) you could always try:
$pdf->SetFont('fontName','',fontSize);
And after your textfield code, just set the font back to what ever you wanted it to be for the rest of the document.
Not really sure if this was exactly what you were looking for, but I hope it helps. Good luck with it all.
I faced also that exact problem. I had a long time before I could find out the solution to this.
To make the field auto size the textual content, the font size of the field must be set to 0. It looks like TCPDF doesn’t support the javascript textSize option (see at the end of TCPDF_STATIC::getAnnotOptFromJSProp() ), so we must set the font size to 0 before the field, and set back again to its original value after the text field :
// Beware to use getFontSize*Pt* and not getFontSize.
// getFontSizePt gets the size in pt, and getFontSize gets the size in user units
// (units you gave when you created TCPDF object or default to mm)
// We need to set it again back with SetFontSize() which takes the font size in pt
$originalFontSize = $pdf->getFontSizePt();
$pdf->SetFontSize(0);
$pdf->TextField($name, $w, $h);
$pdf->SetFontSize($originalFontSize);
I'm using Excel5 in my project. I have already tried the following codes:
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getStyle('A1')->getFill()->getStartColor()->getARGB();
and
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getStyle('A1')->getFill()->getEndColor()->getARGB();
but these codes are returning wrong color. The getStartColor() always returning FFFFFFFF and FF000000 for getEndColor() instead of red.
I don't know what am missing. Can any one help me in figuring this out?
setReadDataOnly(TRUE) means read only the data from the cells, but none of the styling... and as background colours are part of the styling the reader will ignore background colours when it loads the file... if the fill style is not loaded, then the call to $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getStyle('A1')->getFill() will return default fill style and colours.
Load the file with setReadDataOnly(FALSE) and you should find it works
EDIT
This is way beyond the scope of PHPExcel.... everything is populated via DDE, including most of the styling, so the underlying fill colour is plain (as returned by the PHPExcel getFill colour call) until the external executable TOS.exe populates the data and sets the styles accordingly. Your only option here is to use COM so that the workbook is being executed in MS Excel itself.
Your second code:
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getStyle('A1')->getFill()->getEndColor()->getARGB();
Works , it just returns a color hex code (FF0000).
RGB = Red Blue Green = xx xx xx
FF0000 is actually RED.
I have a PHP project where I am opening up a premade PDF, and filling it out with data via PHP. The problem I am having is that one of the text elements isn't showing up. I am positioning it towards the bottom right of the PDF page. If I move it to the left a little, it shows up. It's as if there is some clipping or something.
I am using TCPDF, and since I am needing to modify an existing PDF, I am also having to use the FPDI class. It appears to me that FPDI normally is integrated with FPDF, so I've been using the FPDF methods to build out my PDF. OK, so here is some of my code (or the relevant parts)...
$pdf = new PDF();
$pdf->AddPage( 'L', 'Letter' );
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(false);
$pdf->SetXY(261,200);
$pdf->Write(5, 'test');
There is at least a centimeter of whitespace to the right of the text when I position the text with a value of 260. If I move it just one more unit to 261, like in the code above, it just disappears. I'm able to position the text so far on the bottom of the page, that only the top half of the letters show, however, I can't even approach the right side of the page, or the text will completely disappear. I've set the SetAutoPageBreak to false, so new pages aren't created, and I've also flirted with zeroing out the margins.
Might be a bit late in the game...
I had a look at the fpdf.php file and it looks like it adds a margin of 1cm.
If you lower it then you can get text closer to the edge of the page. Below is the original line:
// Page margins (1 cm)
$margin = 28.35/$this->k;
But if you change it to something like
$margin = 10/$this->k;
This gets you closer to the edge of your document.
I've had the best luck using cells to position text, for some reason they have shown to be more accurate and easier to work with than simply writing text onto the document:
$pdf->SetXY(261,200);
$pdf->Cell(0,10,'My text',0,1, 'C');
Docs: http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/cell.htm
Write() is used for flowing text (internally it uses several Cell() calls). If it reaches the right margin an automatic line break is done and the next word/character will start a new line at the left margin.
The word will not disappear but will be shown at the lower left area.
You can see the characters flowing with this simple script:
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage( 'L', 'Letter' );
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(false);
$pdf->SetFont('Helvetica');
$pdf->SetXY(261,200);
$pdf->Write(5, 't e s t');
$pdf->Output();
Try the following:
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak('auto',0);