Morning Work—Trying FPDI

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I spent the morning researching matters related to go-soudan.com.

1) How to unlock a PDF: I used Advanced PDF Password Recovery, which I have used before. I purchased the update. Although it was supposed to be a half-price offer, I was charged the full amount… orz
2) How to use FPDI
　The site structure was difficult to understand and caused me trouble, but I managed to install it.
　FPDI can be downloaded here. Both FPDI and FPDI_TPL are required. This time I used FPDI 1.2 and FPDF_TPL 1.1.1. Of course, FPDF is also required (here). I used v1.53.

To install it, first extract FPDI into the folder where you want to use it. Then extract the contents of FPDF and FPDF_TPL into that folder. It should look like this.

-rwxr-xr-x    1 nat  nat     16290 Mar 28  2006 FAQ.htm

drwxr-xr-x    4 nat  nat       136 Jan  3 00:54 decoders

drwxr-xr-x   49 nat  nat      1666 Jan 23  2005 doc

drwxrwxrwx   33 nat  nat      1122 Jan  4 11:32 font

-rwxr-xr-x    1 nat  nat     14719 May 21  2007 fpdi.php

-rwxr-xr-x    1 nat  nat      6093 Dec 31  2004 histo.htm

-rwxr-xr-x    1 nat  nat      1009 Dec 31  2004 install.txt

drwxr-xr-x   28 nat  nat       952 Jan  3 09:54 tutorial

-rwxr-xr-x    1 nat  nat      2362 May 21  2007 wrapper_functions.php

For now, I created a sample and tried running it.

<?php

require(’fpdi.php’);
$pdf = new FPDI();
// Set the Source PDF file.

$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile(’TestDoc.pdf’);
// Page 1

$tplidx = $pdf->importPage(1, ‘/MediaBox’);
$pdf->addPage();

$pdf->useTemplate($tplidx, 0, 0, 0);
$pdf->AddFont(’Arial’,’’,’arial.php’);

$pdf->SetFont(’Arial’,’’,14.5);
// A4 is 210x297mm

// Drawing line 5mm interval for 297mm
$pdf->SetDrawColor(0,255,0);
for($i=1;$i<26;$i++){

	$y0 = 57 + $i*6.15;

	$pdf->Line(0,$y0,210,$y0);

	$pdf->SetXY(54,$y0);

	$pdf->Cell(50,0,”0000$y0″,0,0,’R’);

}
for($i=1;$i<18;$i++){

	$y0 = 57 + $i*6.15;

	$pdf->Line(0,$y0,210,$y0);

	$pdf->SetXY(143,$y0);

	$pdf->Cell(50,0,”$y0″,0,0,’R’);

}
// Page 2

$tplidx = $pdf->importPage(2, ‘/MediaBox’);
$pdf->addPage();

$pdf->useTemplate($tplidx, 0, 0, 0);

?>

　
At last, I reached the point where I could place text over an existing PDF.

Then I actually tried placing it over a Form A PDF. Japanese seems to work for now.
That is a relief. Now I only need to adjust the positioning so the text fits in the boxes….

At this point, I paused for the time being because I had to go out.

Morning Work—Trying FPDI

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