I need to generate a pdf file by adding pages from an already generated pdf using only php or javascript.
I tried fpdf but could not find any appropriate function. Is there a method I could use to do this?
There is an extension that should allow this to work called FPDI
That being said, I've not had a ton of luck through the years using FPDF. I've always fallen back to DomPDF or the likes. Like anything Adobe touches, PDF is not the most friendly tool in the world for those of us charged to make them work.
Try this:
http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/
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Can we read PDF using PHP?
I want to read single page pdf file by php. If yes please give me some example. Single class file is more appropriate.
There are a variety of techniques to read PDF using PHP. I won't be using the code in here because it is not appropriate on the premise that we don't know what is your exact use case. But here are a few links that could help you out. In no particular order,
FPDF: http://www.fpdf.org/
FPDF is a PDF reader for PHP. The one below, is more like a converter.
PDF TO HTML http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
Free PDF Document Importer: http://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/about/
I am using PHP 5.0 pdf library to convert files dynamically into PDF.
I am using this reference from the official PHP website using PDF_new(), creating its object and using PDF_set_info and PDF_get_buffer functions.
This works fine, but when I want to create PDF pages and writing the content inside of it, there is no reference given anywhere on how to convert an already existing page to PDF. Say a page in my folder bill.php with CSS too needs to be converted to PDF on the fly.
Well converting HTML to PDF is not that easy, there are several libraries out there that might fit your needs. But none has full html/css capabilities, especially not css3.
FPDF
http://www.fpdf.org
TCPDF
http://www.tcpdf.org
DOMPDF
http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/ (this class allows you to easily convert simple layouted websites to pdf. i used this class quite often with almost no problems. sadly this library does not support converting of forms to usable input fields.)
WKHTMLTOPDF
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ (actually a linux package but php wrappers are existing. this gives almost full html capabilities and awesome results)
html2PDF is a nice library to use. Make sure you change the default language to English though. I've used it many times to create dynamic invoices with tables and divs. Works really well.
Refer some of the articles, which may help to improve your knowledge as well as clear some of doubt of you.
Getting started
Convert HTML To PDF in PHP The Easy Way
How to Generate a PDF With PHP
Convert HTML to PDF
This HTML to PDF SDK may also help you.
Hope, it will help you.
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I'm on a basic Apache with no extensions apart from default enabled and I want to create a PDF file from the current page.
The current page is PHP echoing out some variables but I want to create a PDF document from the HTML and text currently shown on the page.
Something like WHMCS quote system.
You could use a third party solution such as:
http://pdfcrowd.com/
http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/
http://html-pdf-converter.com/
I'd recommend pdfcrowd.com - it has an API that you can use and i've used the service before and not had any problems.
Look into FPDF, TCPDF, DomPDF, or any other PHP PDF library.
FPDF is very lightweight, and could be perfect for you if you are just echoing out variables.
TCPDF is much more HTML->PDF in terms of syles and css features, but the file size is a bit bigger. It could be used to easily build invoices and make them look nice.
I haven't used DomPDF personally, so I won't comment on it, but it can get the job done.
Take a look at FPDF.
It is a free libary for generating .pdf documents within php.
I've used TCPDF to create a PDF from HTML. I think DOMPDF also does that
you have a few options:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php
FPDF: http://www.fpdf.org/
TCPDF: http://www.tcpdf.org/
DOMPDF: http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/
BTW: Convert HTML + CSS to PDF with PHP?
You can also check dompdf . It creates pdf FROM HTML ! it could be more appropriate for your request but I personally prefer FPDF (CSS make me sometimes crazy with domdf :-) )
The only pure PHP solution I've tested is mPDF and it worked pretty well for my purpose. It takes HTML/CSS input at generates a PDF from that.
It requires a lot of memory so you'll have to increase the memory limit for the script. The settings that worked for me were:
ini_set('memory_limit', '1024M');
ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 2000000);
this is what i'm trying to do. I have a Student Result Application in
which i'll like to print out a pdf format of a specially designed
Result's Sheet..
http://www.4shared.com/photo/yg8vCjYe/results_layout.html
My question is that is it possible to send all the html, css and php
variables from the final result sheet to the pdf engine, or just
design a new page result_printout.php page and implement the
pdf engine on that page.
I'll be happy your honest opinions
thanks for you help
honestly, i haven't done this before,
but i think this should help:
http://www.rustyparts.com/pdf.php
Since you allready have the HTML I would suggest to use wkhtmltopdf. There also some wrappers for PHP. It's allways a bit tricky to get it all work in the right way, especially with pagebreaks.
But I find it usually more easy to use then all the other PHP PDF creation classes/libraries.
I have only worked with MPDF and you can pretty much send all the html, css and php variables to the pdf enginge and tell the engine to either force a download or send it to the browser where the user can either save the file or print or just view it. You can also email the generated pdf.
You can read the documentation here: http://mpdf1.com/manual/
I have an already pre-designed PDF, and I would like to fill the PDF with some database information. So I'm curious if I should save the PDF into JPG's and render them out with the data on top of the image and re-create a PDF.
Or is there a way to use the PDF already, and print data into the PDF that is already made?
I am trying to figure out the best solution to generating this type of PDF.
All thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
You can read about PHP's PDF library here: http://php.net/manual/book.pdf.php
PHP also recommends these alternatives:
http://www.fpdf.org/
http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf
http://php.net/manual/book.haru.php
PDF files support the use of interactive form fields, so the best method for adding information to a PDF from a database, is add form fields to your database and find a library that let's you fill out PDF forms programatically.
Rendering a PDF to an image just to write information on it and then converting it back to a PDF would mean that no text was selectable in the new PDF unless you OCR'd it, which isn't the most optimal way to do it.
After a bit more digging, I was able to use Zend PDF within the framework to update the PDF quite easily. It was my first time using the Zend Framework, and found it quite useful. I suggest anyone trying to manipulate PDF's use Zend.
Just my .02 though. I appreciate your pointers though that were given.