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[David Mintz]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Jeff Loiselle wrote:

> What's the best way to stab at adding two lines of text to the top of
> an existing PDF?


I think you want http://fpdi.setasign.de/index.php?p=home

I have a project in which I am going to need to open a PDF template and
fill in some data. Just to prove I could do it I created a document in
OpenOffice Writer with an empty rectangle drawn in a more or less
arbitrary position on the page, then saved it as a PDF called
test_pdf.pdf, then tried to use this class to open it, squirt some fresh
red ink right into the little box and save the new PDF to disk. It works.


<?php

define('FPDF_FONTPATH','../font/');
require('./fpdi.php');

$pdf= new fpdi();
$pdf->setTextColor(255,0,0);
$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile("./test_pdf.pdf");
$tplidx = $pdf->ImportPage(1);
$pdf->addPage();
$pdf->useTemplate($tplidx);
$pdf->SetXY(66,52);
$pdf->SetFont('helvetica','B',10);
$pdf->Cell(150,20,'new text written '.date('r'));
$pdf->Ln(5);
$pdf->SetX(66);
$pdf->Cell(150,20,'more text written soon thereafter');
$pdf->Output('./output.pdf','F');
$pdf->closeParsers();
echo "ok";

?>

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David Mintz
http://davidmintz.org/

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