PDF_setfont

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PECL pdflib >= 1.0.0)

PDF_setfont — Configure la police courante

Description

bool PDF_setfont ( resource $pdfdoc , int $font , float $fontsize )

PDF_setfont() configure la police courante avec la police font et la taille fontsize. font est une ressource retournée par PDF_load_font(). Cette fonction retourne TRUE en cas de succès ou FALSE si une erreur survient.

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[edit] Last updated: Fri, 25 May 2012

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info at techcare dot ch 13-Dec-2008 04:22


Note that core font Helvetica-Bold does not accept font sizes>12 .

This probably affects other core fonts.

pcheely at presensit dot com 24-Oct-2007 05:56


Here is a simple function to ease changing fonts in your PDF.



function pdf_font($pdf,$size,$face='arial')

{

   //Set the path  

   $path=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

   ${$face} = $face."=$path/fonts/".$face.".ttf";



   pdf_set_parameter($pdf, 'FontOutline',${$face});

       

   $font=pdf_findfont($pdf,$face,"host",0);

   

    pdf_setfont($pdf,$font,$size);

}

Malcolm Scott 04-Jun-2003 12:38


Note that pdf_setfont (this function) and pdf_set_font (a deprecated function) are different. I spent a while trying to figure out why my code wasn't working; it turns out I'd included the extra underscore by accident...

shan at symbiotic dot 2y dot net 21-Dec-2000 02:21


For those who are looking 


the PDF core fonts Are





Courier,Courier-Bold,Courier-Oblique,Courier-BoldOblique,


Helvetica,Helvetica-Bold,Helvetica-Oblique,Helvetica-BoldOblique,


Times-Roman,Times-Bold,Times-Italic,Times-BoldItalic,


Symbol,ZapfDingbats

afsilva at netscape dot net 06-Nov-2000 11:04


To anyone who is trying to add extra FONTS to work with PHP and pdflib.





Take a look at: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/ - This is collection of fonts already converted to AFM. There are thousands of fonts. What I am doing is downloading everything, and then I will grep my way through the directories to find what I am looking for.





Another tip: to get the pdflib.upr file working with your fonts add:


putenv("PDFLIBRESOURCE=/dir/where/the/file/is/fonts/pdflib.upr");


on the beginning of your php script. And make sure you change the Font Definition entry on your pdflib.upr file as well. It needs to point to the directory where the .afm files are.

cox at idecnet dot com 30-Mar-2000 04:24


There is also another encoding called 'host'. in the pdflib test examples, they say:


" We don't want to use metrics files for the sample, and therefore stick to host encoding. For this reason the sample text (which uses German special characters) must be platform-specific. Both flavors only differ in the special characters."

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