PDF

• Introduction
• Installing/Configuring
  • Installation
  • Runtime Configuration
  • Resource Types
• Predefined Constants
• Examples
• PDF Functions
  • PDF_activate_item — Activate structure element or other content item
  • PDF_add_annotation — Add annotation [deprecated]
  • PDF_add_bookmark — Add bookmark for current page [deprecated]
  • PDF_add_launchlink — Add launch annotation for current page [deprecated]
  • PDF_add_locallink — Add link annotation for current page [deprecated]
  • PDF_add_nameddest — Create named destination
  • PDF_add_note — Set annotation for current page [deprecated]
  • PDF_add_outline — Add bookmark for current page [deprecated]
  • PDF_add_pdflink — Add file link annotation for current page [deprecated]
  • PDF_add_table_cell — Add a cell to a new or existing table
  • PDF_add_textflow — Create Textflow or add text to existing Textflow
  • PDF_add_thumbnail — Add thumbnail for current page
  • PDF_add_weblink — Add weblink for current page [deprecated]
  • PDF_arc — Draw a counterclockwise circular arc segment
  • PDF_arcn — Draw a clockwise circular arc segment
  • PDF_attach_file — Add file attachment for current page [deprecated]
  • PDF_begin_document — Create new PDF file
  • PDF_begin_font — Start a Type 3 font definition
  • PDF_begin_glyph — Start glyph definition for Type 3 font
  • PDF_begin_item — Open structure element or other content item
  • PDF_begin_layer — Start layer
  • PDF_begin_page_ext — Start new page
  • PDF_begin_page — Start new page [deprecated]
  • PDF_begin_pattern — Start pattern definition
  • PDF_begin_template_ext — Start template definition
  • PDF_begin_template — Start template definition [deprecated]
  • PDF_circle — Draw a circle
  • PDF_clip — Clip to current path
  • PDF_close_image — Close image
  • PDF_close_pdi_page — Close the page handle
  • PDF_close_pdi — Close the input PDF document [deprecated]
  • PDF_close — Close pdf resource [deprecated]
  • PDF_closepath_fill_stroke — Close, fill and stroke current path
  • PDF_closepath_stroke — Close and stroke path
  • PDF_closepath — Close current path
  • PDF_concat — Concatenate a matrix to the CTM
  • PDF_continue_text — Output text in next line
  • PDF_create_3dview — Create 3D view
  • PDF_create_action — Create action for objects or events
  • PDF_create_annotation — Create rectangular annotation
  • PDF_create_bookmark — Create bookmark
  • PDF_create_field — Create form field
  • PDF_create_fieldgroup — Create form field group
  • PDF_create_gstate — Create graphics state object
  • PDF_create_pvf — Create PDFlib virtual file
  • PDF_create_textflow — Create textflow object
  • PDF_curveto — Draw Bezier curve
  • PDF_define_layer — Create layer definition
  • PDF_delete_pvf — Delete PDFlib virtual file
  • PDF_delete_table — Delete table object
  • PDF_delete_textflow — Delete textflow object
  • PDF_delete — Delete PDFlib object
  • PDF_encoding_set_char — Add glyph name and/or Unicode value
  • PDF_end_document — Close PDF file
  • PDF_end_font — Terminate Type 3 font definition
  • PDF_end_glyph — Terminate glyph definition for Type 3 font
  • PDF_end_item — Close structure element or other content item
  • PDF_end_layer — Deactivate all active layers
  • PDF_end_page_ext — Finish page
  • PDF_end_page — Finish page
  • PDF_end_pattern — Finish pattern
  • PDF_end_template — Finish template
  • PDF_endpath — End current path
  • PDF_fill_imageblock — Fill image block with variable data
  • PDF_fill_pdfblock — Fill PDF block with variable data
  • PDF_fill_stroke — Fill and stroke path
  • PDF_fill_textblock — Fill text block with variable data
  • PDF_fill — Fill current path
  • PDF_findfont — Prepare font for later use [deprecated]
  • PDF_fit_image — Place image or template
  • PDF_fit_pdi_page — Place imported PDF page
  • PDF_fit_table — Place table on page
  • PDF_fit_textflow — Format textflow in rectangular area
  • PDF_fit_textline — Place single line of text
  • PDF_get_apiname — Get name of unsuccessfull API function
  • PDF_get_buffer — Get PDF output buffer
  • PDF_get_errmsg — Get error text
  • PDF_get_errnum — Get error number
  • PDF_get_font — Get font [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_fontname — Get font name [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_fontsize — Font handling [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_image_height — Get image height [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_image_width — Get image width [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_majorversion — Get major version number [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_minorversion — Get minor version number [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_parameter — Get string parameter
  • PDF_get_pdi_parameter — Get PDI string parameter [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_pdi_value — Get PDI numerical parameter [deprecated]
  • PDF_get_value — Get numerical parameter
  • PDF_info_font — Query detailed information about a loaded font
  • PDF_info_matchbox — Query matchbox information
  • PDF_info_table — Retrieve table information
  • PDF_info_textflow — Query textflow state
  • PDF_info_textline — Perform textline formatting and query metrics
  • PDF_initgraphics — Reset graphic state
  • PDF_lineto — Draw a line
  • PDF_load_3ddata — Load 3D model
  • PDF_load_font — Search and prepare font
  • PDF_load_iccprofile — Search and prepare ICC profile
  • PDF_load_image — Open image file
  • PDF_makespotcolor — Make spot color
  • PDF_moveto — Set current point
  • PDF_new — Create PDFlib object
  • PDF_open_ccitt — Open raw CCITT image [deprecated]
  • PDF_open_file — Create PDF file [deprecated]
  • PDF_open_gif — Open GIF image [deprecated]
  • PDF_open_image_file — Read image from file [deprecated]
  • PDF_open_image — Use image data [deprecated]
  • PDF_open_jpeg — Open JPEG image [deprecated]
  • PDF_open_memory_image — Open image created with PHP's image functions [not supported]
  • PDF_open_pdi_page — Prepare a page
  • PDF_open_pdi — Open PDF file [deprecated]
  • PDF_open_tiff — Open TIFF image [deprecated]
  • PDF_pcos_get_number — Get value of pCOS path with type number or boolean
  • PDF_pcos_get_stream — Get contents of pCOS path with type stream, fstream, or string
  • PDF_pcos_get_string — Get value of pCOS path with type name, string, or boolean
  • PDF_place_image — Place image on the page [deprecated]
  • PDF_place_pdi_page — Place PDF page [deprecated]
  • PDF_process_pdi — Process imported PDF document
  • PDF_rect — Draw rectangle
  • PDF_restore — Restore graphics state
  • PDF_resume_page — Resume page
  • PDF_rotate — Rotate coordinate system
  • PDF_save — Save graphics state
  • PDF_scale — Scale coordinate system
  • PDF_set_border_color — Set border color of annotations [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_border_dash — Set border dash style of annotations [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_border_style — Set border style of annotations [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_char_spacing — Set character spacing [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_duration — Set duration between pages [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_gstate — Activate graphics state object
  • PDF_set_horiz_scaling — Set horizontal text scaling [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_info_author — Fill the author document info field [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_info_creator — Fill the creator document info field [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_info_keywords — Fill the keywords document info field [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_info_subject — Fill the subject document info field [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_info_title — Fill the title document info field [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_info — Fill document info field
  • PDF_set_layer_dependency — Define relationships among layers
  • PDF_set_leading — Set distance between text lines [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_parameter — Set string parameter
  • PDF_set_text_matrix — Set text matrix [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_text_pos — Set text position
  • PDF_set_text_rendering — Determine text rendering [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_text_rise — Set text rise [deprecated]
  • PDF_set_value — Set numerical parameter
  • PDF_set_word_spacing — Set spacing between words [deprecated]
  • PDF_setcolor — Set fill and stroke color
  • PDF_setdash — Set simple dash pattern
  • PDF_setdashpattern — Set dash pattern
  • PDF_setflat — Set flatness
  • PDF_setfont — Set font
  • PDF_setgray_fill — Set fill color to gray [deprecated]
  • PDF_setgray_stroke — Set stroke color to gray [deprecated]
  • PDF_setgray — Set color to gray [deprecated]
  • PDF_setlinecap — Set linecap parameter
  • PDF_setlinejoin — Set linejoin parameter
  • PDF_setlinewidth — Set line width
  • PDF_setmatrix — Set current transformation matrix
  • PDF_setmiterlimit — Set miter limit
  • PDF_setpolydash — Set complicated dash pattern [deprecated]
  • PDF_setrgbcolor_fill — Set fill rgb color values [deprecated]
  • PDF_setrgbcolor_stroke — Set stroke rgb color values [deprecated]
  • PDF_setrgbcolor — Set fill and stroke rgb color values [deprecated]
  • PDF_shading_pattern — Define shading pattern
  • PDF_shading — Define blend
  • PDF_shfill — Fill area with shading
  • PDF_show_boxed — Output text in a box [deprecated]
  • PDF_show_xy — Output text at given position
  • PDF_show — Output text at current position
  • PDF_skew — Skew the coordinate system
  • PDF_stringwidth — Return width of text
  • PDF_stroke — Stroke path
  • PDF_suspend_page — Suspend page
  • PDF_translate — Set origin of coordinate system
  • PDF_utf16_to_utf8 — Convert string from UTF-16 to UTF-8
  • PDF_utf32_to_utf16 — Convert string from UTF-32 to UTF-16
  • PDF_utf8_to_utf16 — Convert string from UTF-8 to UTF-16

add a note User Contributed Notes
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php at morelightmorelight dot com
08-May-2008 03:13

ezpdf http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/ is also an easy alternative to this.  It suffices for most pdf tasks and is quick to pick up.

I also created a modified version of ezpdf that supports rotated text: http://www.morelightmorelight.com/projects/walletpdf/

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Introduction SWFVideoStream->setDimension()

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Last updated: Fri, 09 May 2008