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<?php
/* $Id: starter_textflow.php,v 1.1.2.1 2007/09/27 12:58:00 rjs Exp $
*
* Textflow starter:
* Create multi-column text output which may span multiple pages
*
* required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7 or above
* required data: none
*/
$outfilename = "starter_textflow.pdf";
$tf = 0;
$llx1= 50; $lly1=50; $urx1=250; $ury1=800;
$llx2=300; $lly2=50; $urx2=500; $ury2=800;
/* Repeat the dummy text to produce more contents */
$count = 50;
$optlist1 = "fontname=Helvetica fontsize=10.5 encoding=unicode " .
"fillcolor={gray 0} alignment=justify";
$optlist2 = "fontname=Helvetica-Bold fontsize=14 encoding=unicode " .
"fillcolor={rgb 1 0 0} charref";
/* Dummy text for filling the columns. Soft hyphens are marked with
* the character reference "­" (character references are
* enabled by the charref option).
*/
$text=
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adi­pi­sicing elit, sed do eius­mod tempor incidi­dunt ut labore et dolore magna ali­qua. Ut enim ad minim ve­niam, quis nostrud exer­citation ull­amco la­bo­ris nisi ut ali­quip ex ea commodo con­sequat. Duis aute irure dolor in repre­henderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pari­atur. Excep­teur sint occae­cat cupi­datat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia dese­runt mollit anim id est laborum. ";
try {
$p = new PDFlib();
# This means we must check return values of load_font() etc.
$p->set_parameter("errorpolicy", "return");
/* we use "utf8" as textformat, this allows to use unicode encoding */
$p->set_parameter("textformat", "utf8");
if ($p->begin_document($outfilename, "") == 0) {
die("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
}
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib starter sample");
$p->set_info("Title", "starter_textflow");
/* Create some amount of dummy text and feed it to a Textflow
* object with alternating options.
*/
for ($i=1; $i<=$count; $i++) {
$num = $i . " ";
$tf = $p->add_textflow($tf, $num, $optlist2);
if ($tf == 0)
die("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$tf = $p->add_textflow($tf, $text, $optlist1);
if ($tf == 0)
die("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
}
/* Loop until all of the text is placed; create new pages
* as long as more text needs to be placed. Two columns will
* be created on all pages.
*/
do {
/* Add "showborder to visualize the fitbox borders */
$optlist = "verticalalign=justify linespreadlimit=120% ";
$p->begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Fill the first column */
$result = $p->fit_textflow($tf, $llx1, $lly1, $urx1, $ury1, $optlist);
/* Fill the second column if we have more text*/
if ($result != "_stop") {
$result = $p->fit_textflow($tf,
$llx2, $lly2, $urx2, $ury2, $optlist);
}
$p->end_page_ext("");
/* "_boxfull" means we must continue because there is more text;
* "_nextpage" is interpreted as "start new column"
*/
} while ($result == "_boxfull" || $result == "_nextpage");
/* Check for errors */
if (!$result == "_stop") {
/* "_boxempty" happens if the box is very small and doesn't
* hold any text at all.
*/
if ($result == "_boxempty") {
die("Error: Textflow box too small");
} else {
/* Any other return value is a user exit caused by
* the "return" option; this requires dedicated code to
* deal with.
*/
die("User return '" . $result . "' found in Textflow");
}
}
$p->delete_textflow($tf);
$p->end_document("");
print "$outfilename generated";
}
catch (PDFlibException $e) {
die("PDFlib exception occurred in starter_textflow sample:\n" .
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() . ": " .
$e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
}
catch (Exception $e) {
die($e);
}
$p = 0;
?>