Zend Framework

Improve Zend_Pdf Text-Functions

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Zend_Pdf
  • Labels:
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Description

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:

Another helpful FPDF-feature is helpfull wenn creating tables:

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

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

Attachments

  1. File
    Cell.php
    05/Aug/09 12:04 AM
    18 kB
    Philip Iezzi
  2. Text File
    Cell.php
    29/Nov/07 5:24 PM
    18 kB
    Logan Buesching
  3. Text File
    Cell.txt
    25/Sep/07 12:10 PM
    12 kB
    Logan Buesching

Issue Links

This issue is duplicated by:
ZF-7145 Zend_Pdf_Page::drawText() with multi-line text Minor Open

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Bill Karwin added a comment -

Assign to Alexander.

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Bill Karwin added a comment - Assign to Alexander.
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Alexander Veremyev added a comment -

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

Postponed to post-1.0 period

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Alexander Veremyev added a comment - Depends on document representation model, which should be designed before. Postponed to post-1.0 period
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Logan Buesching added a comment -

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 added a comment - 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 added a comment -

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

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Logan Buesching added a comment - Patch for a cell class that allows simple cell creation and text alignment.
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Logan Buesching added a comment -

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

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Logan Buesching added a comment - I have updated the Cell.php file and fixed a few things. Added borders and word wrapping.
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Logan Buesching added a comment -

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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Logan Buesching added a comment - 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 added a comment -

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

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Wil Sinclair added a comment - Resetting 'fix version priority' and 'fix version' to be re-evaluated for next release.
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Willie Alberty added a comment -

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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Willie Alberty added a comment - 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 added a comment -

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

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Wil Sinclair added a comment - Alex, please take a look at this and resolve as necessary.
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Philip Iezzi added a comment -

in _wordWrap() I've encountered endless loops resulting in a 500 server error in the following case:
A word of 1 character length (e.g. "-") would be the last word in a cell. This one character would still fit the cell width but we are trying to addText() the word plus a space separator (" "), after having calculated the word's width based on the 1-character word. We end up getting stuck in the while-loop.

I can't explain it any smarter as I'm having trouble with this complex recursion. But I got a quick and dirty fix for this:

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< 			$maxTextSection=$this->_makeTextSection(array_shift($splitSection));
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> 			$maxTextSection=$this->_makeTextSection(array_shift($splitSection) . ' ');
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< 				$this->addText($maxTextSection['text'].' ');
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> 				$this->addText($maxTextSection['text']);
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< 				$maxTextSection=$this->_makeTextSection(array_shift($splitSection));
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> 				$maxTextSection=$this->_makeTextSection(array_shift($splitSection) . ' ');
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< 			$this->addText($maxTextSection['text'].' '.$restOfText);
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> 			$this->addText($maxTextSection['text'].$restOfText);

I have updated the attached Cell.php

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Philip Iezzi added a comment - in _wordWrap() I've encountered endless loops resulting in a 500 server error in the following case: A word of 1 character length (e.g. "-") would be the last word in a cell. This one character would still fit the cell width but we are trying to addText() the word plus a space separator (" "), after having calculated the word's width based on the 1-character word. We end up getting stuck in the while-loop. I can't explain it any smarter as I'm having trouble with this complex recursion. But I got a quick and dirty fix for this: 
173c173
< 			$maxTextSection=$this->_makeTextSection(array_shift($splitSection));
---
> 			$maxTextSection=$this->_makeTextSection(array_shift($splitSection) . ' ');
175c175
< 				$this->addText($maxTextSection['text'].' ');
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> 				$this->addText($maxTextSection['text']);
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< 				$maxTextSection=$this->_makeTextSection(array_shift($splitSection));
---
> 				$maxTextSection=$this->_makeTextSection(array_shift($splitSection) . ' ');
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< 			$this->addText($maxTextSection['text'].' '.$restOfText);
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> 			$this->addText($maxTextSection['text'].$restOfText);
I have updated the attached Cell.php
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Philip Iezzi added a comment -

besides, there was another bug I've fixed long time ago:

--- ZF-1254_Cell.php	2009-08-01 11:26:04.000000000 +0200
+++ Cell.php	2009-08-05 09:01:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@
     	for ($x=0;$x<strlen($textSection['text']);$x++) {
 			$charArray[]=ord(substr($textSection['text'],$x,1));
 		}
-    	$charArray=$textSection['font']->cmap->glyphNumbersForCharacters($charArray);
+    	$charArray=$textSection['font']->glyphNumbersForCharacters($charArray);
     	//get the lengths
 		$lengths=$textSection['font']->widthsForGlyphs($charArray);
 		$fontGlyphWidth=array_sum($lengths);

I've updated the attached Cell.php

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Philip Iezzi added a comment - besides, there was another bug I've fixed long time ago: 
--- ZF-1254_Cell.php	2009-08-01 11:26:04.000000000 +0200
+++ Cell.php	2009-08-05 09:01:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@
     	for ($x=0;$x<strlen($textSection['text']);$x++) {
 			$charArray[]=ord(substr($textSection['text'],$x,1));
 		}
-    	$charArray=$textSection['font']->cmap->glyphNumbersForCharacters($charArray);
+    	$charArray=$textSection['font']->glyphNumbersForCharacters($charArray);
     	//get the lengths
 		$lengths=$textSection['font']->widthsForGlyphs($charArray);
 		$fontGlyphWidth=array_sum($lengths);
I've updated the attached Cell.php
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Gerrit Kamp added a comment -

I really like the Zend PDF functionality. It's fast and stable. But I think many users would benefit from two key features:
-Allow to parse HTML text (like here: http://fpdf.org/en/tutorial/tuto6.htm)
-Allow to create tables (like above).

Are these types of functionality scheduled to be included in the core framework anytime soon? Without it, most PDF documents will look rather basic.

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Gerrit Kamp added a comment - I really like the Zend PDF functionality. It's fast and stable. But I think many users would benefit from two key features: -Allow to parse HTML text (like here: http://fpdf.org/en/tutorial/tuto6.htm) -Allow to create tables (like above). Are these types of functionality scheduled to be included in the core framework anytime soon? Without it, most PDF documents will look rather basic.
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Peter Moolenaar added a comment -

There is a proposal which has some very nice features related to this as well.
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Pdf+text+drawing+improvements+-+Nico+Edtinger

Maybe an idea to implement that one?

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Peter Moolenaar added a comment - There is a proposal which has some very nice features related to this as well. http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Pdf+text+drawing+improvements+-+Nico+Edtinger Maybe an idea to implement that one?

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