{"id":28,"date":"2012-02-10T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/2012\/02\/drawing_a_image_in_a_pdf_with_zend_framework-shtml\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:46:31","slug":"drawing_a_image_in_a_pdf_with_zend_framework-shtml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/drawing_a_image_in_a_pdf_with_zend_framework-shtml\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing A Image In A PDF With Zend Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI recently wrote about Creating A Simple PDF With The Zend Framework<\/a>, and so I thought I’d take a quick look at Zend_PDF’s Drawing Methods<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nAs you may know I work for a company called Bauer<\/a> and we have a very simple logo. It’s basically a blue square, with a gray triangle in the top right hand corner and the name BAUER in white at the bottom. This sounds like an ideal image to try to recreate using Zend_PDF.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"Bauer\n<\/p>\n

\nTake a look at my previous article on PDF’s and Zend Framework for an explanation of setting up a document and page to draw on. I will assume this page has been setup and is available in the $page<\/var> variable.\n<\/p>\n

\nFirstly we need to prepare a font for use. I don’t know the font Bauer use, so I’ll just use Helvetica Bold in this example.\n<\/p>\n

\n$font = Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName(Zend_Pdf_Font::FONT_HELVETICA_BOLD);\n<\/pre>\n
\nThe background is a blue square, so I need to set the fill colour to the shade of blue Bauer use, then draw the square using this colour.\n<\/p>\n
$page->setFillColor(new Zend_Pdf_Color_Html('#014495'))\n     ->drawRectangle(0, 0, 200, 200, Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL);\n<\/pre>\n
\nAs you can see, I’ve decided to make the logo 200×200 in size.\n<\/p>\n
\nNow it’s time to write BAUER at the bottom in white using the font we prepared earlier.\n<\/p>\n
$page->setFillColor(new Zend_Pdf_Color_Html('#ffffff'))\n     ->setFont($font, 52)\n     ->drawText('BAUER', 7, 10);\n<\/pre>\n
\nFirstly I set the fill colour to white. Next I select the font and set it’s size. Finally I write the word BAUER at co-ordinates 7,10, which happens to be at the bottom of the blue square.\n<\/p>\n
\nFinally it’s time to draw the gray triangle in the top right corner of the blue square.\n<\/p>\n
$page->setFillColor(new Zend_Pdf_Color_Html('#dddddd'))\n     ->drawPolygon(array(70, 190, 190),\n                   array(190, 190, 70),\n                   Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL);\n<\/pre>\n
\nAs before, I set the fill colour, this time to gray. Now I use the drawPolygon<\/code> method to draw the triangle. As you can see there are two arrays there, the first are the x co-ordinates of the triangle, the second are the y co-ordinates of the triangle. The fill method is the last parameter, it’s the same as the one we used when drawing the blue square.\n<\/p>\n
\nWe should now have our Bauer logo on the page!\n<\/p>\n
\n\"generated\n<\/p>\n
\nI don’t think that Bauer will be sacking their design team in a hurry, but it’s quite a close approximation of the logo.\n<\/p>\n
\nHere’s a copy of the finished code.\n<\/p>\n
\/\/ load the Zend Framework Autoloader.\nini_set(\"include_path\",\".\/library\");\nrequire_once 'Zend\/Loader\/Autoloader.php';\n\n$loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();\n\ntry {\n  \/\/ create a new PDF document.\n  $pdf = new Zend_Pdf();\n\n  \/\/ create a new A4 sized page.\n  $page = new Zend_Pdf_Page(Zend_Pdf_Page::SIZE_A4);\n\n  \/\/ prepare the Helvetica Bold font.\n  $font = Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName(Zend_Pdf_Font::FONT_HELVETICA_BOLD);\n\n  \/\/ draw the blue square background.\n  $page->setFillColor(new Zend_Pdf_Color_Html('#014495'))\n       ->drawRectangle(0, 0, 200, 200, Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL);\n\n  \/\/ draw the white BAUER text at the bottom of the square.\n  $page->setFillColor(new Zend_Pdf_Color_Html('#ffffff'))\n       ->setFont($font, 52)\n       ->drawText('BAUER', 7, 10);\n\n  \/\/ draw the grey triangle in the top right corner of the square.\n  $page->setFillColor(new Zend_Pdf_Color_Html('#dddddd'))\n       ->drawPolygon(array(70, 190, 190),\n                     array(190, 190, 70),\n                     Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL);\n\n  \/\/ add the page to the pdf document.\n  $pdf->pages[] = $page;\n\n  \/\/ save the finished PDF to a file\n  $pdf->save('bauer.pdf');\n\n\/\/ catch any errors\n} catch (Zend_Pdf_Exception $e) {\n  die('PDF error: ' . $e->getMessage());\n} catch (Exception $e) {\n  die ('Error: ' . $e->getMessage());\n}\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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