Thodoris wrote:
Hi,
I am trying the following code to generate a pdf:
try {
// Create a new pdf handler
$pdf = new PDFlib();
// open new PDF file
if ($pdf->begin_document("", "") == 0) {
die("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
}
// Set some info to the new pdf
$pdf->set_info("Creator", "Test");
$pdf->set_info("Author", "Test");
$pdf->set_info("Title", "Test");
// Start the page
$pdf->begin_page_ext(595, 842, "");
// Load the documents font and set the details
$font = $pdf->load_font("Times-Roman", "iso8859-7", "");
$pdf->setfont($font,24.0);
$pdf->set_parameter('autospace',TRUE);
// Set the position inside the document
$pdf->set_text_pos(50, 700);
// Now start to show the data
$str = 'Αυτό είναι ένα τεστ.';
mb_convert_variables('ISO-8859-7','UTF-8',$str);
$pdf->show($str);
// End the page and the document
$pdf->end_page_ext("");
$pdf->end_document("");
// Get the document from the buffer find it's length
$buf = $pdf->get_buffer();
$len = strlen($buf);
// And finally print it out to the browser
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=hello.pdf");
print $buf;
}
catch (PDFlibException $e) {
die("PDFlib exception occurred in hello sample:\n" .
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() . ": " .
$e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
}
catch (Exception $e) {
die($e);
}
Although greek are printed normally the characters are overlapping on
each other. The script in encoded in UTF-8.
Does anybody have any suggestions on this? Please any help would be
appreciated.
LaTeX has some greek stuff that works fairly well - though you have to
use one of the fonts encoded for LaTeX.
If you mean to have a web app generate the PDF you'll have to output to
.tex and then use a shell command to compile the document, but it is a
solution that is fairly well tested for creation of Greek (monotonic and
polytonic) PDF documents.
I know that isn't what you asked, but in case there isn't a PDFLib
solution to the typesetting issue, I suspect an application designed for
typesetting will give better results anyway.
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