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user6824
user6824

Reputation: 151

Placing a PDF inside another PDF document with Zend_PDF

I have a pdf file of a logo, about 1"x2" in dimension. Can anybody provide the code snippet to import that PDF logo into another PDF file using the Zend_PDF API's?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to place it like the PNG, TIFF or JPG objects with the Zend_Pdf_Image object.

In other words, I want to be able to place the little 1x2" pdf document on top of a 8.5x11" page, not use the original pdf as a background.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2626

Answers (3)

gnud
gnud

Reputation: 78528

Not what you asked for, but probably what you need (:

Convert the smaller logo pdf to a TIFF/PNG/WhatEver (using, for example, imagemagick's convert, or the GIMP). Then, place this image with the normal Zend API.

This conversion could also be done on the fly, using the Imagick php class, I would imagine.

Upvotes: 0

user6824
user6824

Reputation: 151

It looks like as of this date, there's no way to do it using the Zend_PDF API's. The Zend_Pdf_Page class has a drawContentStream() which looked promising, but when I checked into it, the method body was empty. Maybe a later release of the API will support it.

So, if you want place another PDF inside another dynamically generated PDF document like an image, use FPDI + FPDF/TCPDF.

$pdf = & new FPDI ('P', 'in', 'Letter' );
$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile ( APP . 'logo.pdf' );
$tplidx = $pdf->importPage ( 1, '/MediaBox' );

$pdf->addPage ();
$pdf->useTemplate ( $tplidx, 1, 1 );
$pdf->Output ( 'output.pdf', 'F' );

Upvotes: 2

nlucaroni
nlucaroni

Reputation: 47934

I believe you can clone a page --like a template. Not sure if this is enough for you, it does look like the preferred way to do things. Of course, if you have a pdf that you want to add a, say, watermark, to, uhh, this is clearly insufficient --but in this case a hi-res png would probably suffice.

Upvotes: 1

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