[#ZF-1254] Improve Zend_Pdf Text-Functions - Zend Framework Issue Tracker

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Improve Zend_Pdf Text-Functions

Created: 12/Apr/07 04:21 AM Updated: 08/Dec/08 05:00 PM

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Zend_Pdf

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Cell.php (18 kb)
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Cell.txt (12 kb)

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Participants:	Alexander Veremyev, Bill Karwin, Logan Buesching, Niko Sams, Wil Sinclair and Willie Alberty

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Zend_Pdf currently only has a function drawText to draw Text at a specific position.
For real-world usage it is every hard to work with this - as you have to calculate width and height of texts all the time (only possible ZF-313).

It would be nice to have Features like FPDF where you don't have to manually calculate everytime the y-position of the next line:

Write: http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/write.htm
GetX/GetY: http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/getx.htm http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/gety.htm
SetX/SetY: http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/setx.htm http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/sety.htm

Another helpful FPDF-feature is helpfull wenn creating tables:

Cell: http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/cell.htm
MultiCell: http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc/multicell.htm

Additionally there exists a FPDF-Addon which allows to switch the font in a line - without having to calculate x and y positions:

Flowing Block: http://www.fpdf.de/downloads/addons/65/

Zend_Pdf has has many features fpdf lacks, it would be very nice if we could use Zend_Pdf

a much better OO-Interface, fpdf is one big class
utf8-support
use ttf-fonts directly

thanks,
niko

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Bill Karwin - 12/Apr/07 04:06 PM

Assign to Alexander.

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Alexander Veremyev - 25/May/07 02:48 AM

Depends on document representation model, which should be designed before.

Postponed to post-1.0 period

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Logan Buesching - 25/Sep/07 12:09 PM

I have recently created a class that emulates the FPDF cells. Currently, it is very basic but allows for creating of a cell, positioning the cell, and aligning text inside of the cell. I have attached a diff that creates the functionality. A small example is the following:

//create and attach the cell to the first page, and center in the X and Y direction
$cell=new Zend_Pdf_Cell($pdf->pages[0],Zend_Pdf_Cell::POSITION_CENTER_X | Zend_Pdf_Cell::POSITION_CENTER_Y);
//align the text in the center
$cell->addText("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.",Zend_Pdf_Cell::ALIGN_CENTER);
$cell->newLine();
//write the cell to the PDF document
$cell->write();

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Logan Buesching - 25/Sep/07 12:10 PM

Patch for a cell class that allows simple cell creation and text alignment.

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Logan Buesching - 29/Nov/07 05:24 PM

I have updated the Cell.php file and fixed a few things. Added borders and word wrapping.

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Logan Buesching - 19/Mar/08 09:50 PM

I have just finished up a proposal using the Zend_Pdf_Cell, any comments are welcome. The proposal may be viewed at at http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Pdf_Cell+-+Logan+Buesching

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Wil Sinclair - 25/Mar/08 10:06 PM

Resetting 'fix version priority' and 'fix version' to be re-evaluated for next release.

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Willie Alberty - 04/Dec/08 10:34 PM

Unassigning Zend_Pdf issues currently assigned to me pending decision on ZF 2.0 release timeframe and potential contribution of comprehensive changeset.

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Wil Sinclair - 08/Dec/08 05:00 PM

Alex, please take a look at this and resolve as necessary.