This is the official GIT clone from the R&OS PHP Pdf class previously stored on sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php. Development will take place here now.
The R&OS Pdf class is used to generate PDF Documents using PHP without installing any additional modules or extensions It comes with a base class called "Cpdf.php" plus a helper class "Cezpdf.php" to generate tables, add backgrounds and provide paging.
- Quick and easy to use
- Support for extension classes
- Unicode and ANSI formatted text
- Custom TTF fonts and font subsetting (version >= 0.11.8)
- Auto page and line breaks
- Text alignments (left, right, center, justified)
- Linked XObjects
- Internal and external links
- Compression by using gzcompress
- Encryption 40bit, 128bit since PDF 1.4
- Image support for JPEG, PNG and GIF (partly)
- Template support
Open the RELEASE page and pick the latest version to download.
Extract the archive into your project directory
You can also use git to install it using:
git clone https://github.com/rospdf/pdf-php.git
git checkout <latest-version>
This library is also available on the dependency manager composer
- https://packagist.org/packages/rospdf/pdf-php
Please follow the steps here to install. Once this is done one simple command will get all dependencies for the package rospdf/pdf-php
./composer.phar require rospdf/pdf-php
For more details on how to use composer
please refer to the documentation - https://getcomposer.org/doc/
<?php
include 'src/Cezpdf.php'; // Or use 'vendor/autoload.php' when installed through composer
// Initialize a ROS PDF class object using DIN-A4, with background color gray
$pdf = new Cezpdf('a4','portrait','color',[0.8,0.8,0.8]);
// Set pdf Bleedbox
$pdf->ezSetMargins(20,20,20,20);
// Use one of the pdf core fonts
$mainFont = 'Times-Roman';
// Select the font
$pdf->selectFont($mainFont);
// Define the font size
$size=12;
// Modified to use the local file if it can
$pdf->openHere('Fit');
// Output some colored text by using text directives and justify it to the right of the document
$pdf->ezText("PDF with some <c:color:1,0,0>blue</c:color> <c:color:0,1,0>red</c:color> and <c:color:0,0,1>green</c:color> colours", $size, ['justification'=>'right']);
// Output the pdf as stream, but uncompress
$pdf->ezStream(['compress'=>0]);
?>
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