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It's FREE!

The 'F' in FPDI stands for 'free': you may use it for any kind of project and adapt it to your needs -the license conditions of ASL 2.0 are met nevertheless.

PDF Documents > 1.4

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FPDI and TCPDF

This demo is based on example008.php of the TCPDF script. We used FPDI to simply add a PDF page as background of every page.

<?php
// just require TCPDF instead of FPDF
require_once('tcpdf.php');
require_once('fpdi.php');

class PDF extends FPDI {
    /**
     * "Remembers" the template id of the imported page
     */
    var $_tplIdx;
    
    /**
     * include a background template for every page
     */
    function Header() {
        if (is_null($this->_tplIdx)) {
            $this->setSourceFile('PDFDocument.pdf');
            $this->_tplIdx = $this->importPage(1);
        }
        $this->useTemplate($this->_tplIdx);
        
        $this->SetFont('freesans', 'B', 9);
        $this->SetTextColor(255);
        $this->SetXY(60.5, 24.8);
        $this->Cell(0, 8.6, "TCPDF and FPDI");
    }
    
    function Footer() {}
}

// initiate PDF
$pdf = new PDF();
$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, 40, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(true, 40);
$pdf->setFontSubsetting(false);

// add a page
$pdf->AddPage();

// get esternal file content
$utf8text = file_get_contents("cache/utf8test.txt", true);

$pdf->SetFont("freeserif", "", 12);
// now write some text above the imported page
$pdf->Write(5, $utf8text);

$pdf->Output('newpdf.pdf', 'D');

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