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Introduction to FPDFJeremy Curcio
Open West - May 9, 2015
Who Am I?
Software Developer from Baltimore, Maryland
Works for Planit Advertising
Writing iOS Apps since 2008
Hockey Player
Pokémaster
About FPDF
• First released in 2001
• Written by Olivier Plathey
• Completely free to use
• Open Sourced
• Requires no extensions*
• zlib is required to activate compression
• GD is required for GIF support
Where To Get It
• www.fpdf.org/
• Download (ZIP / TAR)
• Tutorials
• Documentation
• User Forum
Abilities
• Automatic page breaks
• Automatic line breaks
• Text justification
• Color management
• Links
• Image support
• Page set up customization
• Set document meta data
• Title
• Author
• Keywords
• Supports many languages
Output
• Can output finished PDF to
• Browser: $pdf->Output(‘invoice.php’, ‘I’);
• Forced Download: $pdf->Output(‘invoice.php’, ‘D’)
• Save to Server: $pdf->Output(‘pdfs/invoice.php’, ‘F’)
Common API Methods
• FPDF
• Constructor method
• FPDF([string orientation [, string unit [. mixed size]]])
• Cell
• Cell(float w [, float h [, string txt [, mixed border [, int ln [, string align [, boolean fill [, mixed link]]]]]]]
More Common API Methods
• Multiline Cell
• MultiCell(float w, float h, string txt[, mixed border [, string align [, boolean fill]]])
• Image
• Image(string file[, float x [, float y [, float w [, float h [, string type [, mixed link]]]]]])
Even More Common API Methods
• Line Break
• Ln([float h])
• Set Font
• SetFont(string family [, string style [, float size]])
• Set XY
• SetXY(float x, float y)
Ready?
Lets Build Something!
Other Capabilities
• Headers and Footers
• Links
• Color
• Add existing documents
Extendability
• Many extensions to FPDF are available
• Bookmark support
• Barcodes
• Circles/Ellipses
• Watermark
• Plus many more
Final Thoughts
• Easy to make
• Highly versatile
• Hugely customizable
Questions?
Resources
Code/Slides available at www.jcurcio.com
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