pdf kerning

[marcdakar]

hi, thanks for this awesome framwork

im just exploring the pdf function and found a problem with kerning of german unlaute please point me in the right direction to solve this, thank you ... marc

this is the pdf http://bludomain.de/test.pdf

code: require_once '../../bootstrap.php';

use Pop\Pdf\Pdf; try { $pdf = new Pdf('doc.pdf'); $pdf->addPage('Letter'); $pdf->setCompression(true);

$pdf->setVersion('1.4')
    ->setTitle('Test Title')
    ->setAuthor('Test Author')
    ->setSubject('Test Subject')
    ->setCreateDate(date('D, M j, Y h:i A'));

 $pdf->addFont('../assets/fonts/BicklySc.TTF', true);
 $pdf->addText(50, 620, 28, utf8_decode('Wünsche mir schließlich the Pop PHP Framework !'), $pdf->getLastFontName());

$pdf->output();

} catch (\Exception $e) { echo $e->getMessage(); }

[nicksagona]

Hey thanks for checking out the framework. I'll take a look and see what the issue is.

Nick

[nicksagona]

Hey, I'm finally getting a chance to look at this. It's looking like it's an issue with the width of multi-byte characters. I'm going to look into it and see if I can figure out a fix. Thanks - Nick

[nicksagona]

Ok, I was able to fix the encoding of the fonts, including the 13 standard Adobe fonts and the embedded fonts as well. However, in testing it, the results looked correct for most fonts I tested it with, but still a little off for a couple of other fonts. It may be an issue on the font level, and which font is chosen to be embedded in the PDF.

A couple of additional notes:

• You no longer have to pass the font name as the last parameter as the addText method (it will just automatically pick it up from the last font added.)
• If the mbstring extension is installed, it will auto-detect if a multibyte character is present and auto-decode it for you (so you don't have to use the utf8_decode() function when passing the text to the addText() method.)

So go ahead and get the latest copy and test it out.

Here's my code to test it with a handful of TTF and OTF fonts:

$pdf = new Pdf('doc.pdf');

$pdf->addPage('Letter');

$pdf->setVersion('1.4')
    ->setTitle('Test Title')
    ->setAuthor('Test Author')
    ->setSubject('Test Subject')
    ->setCreateDate(date('D, M j, Y h:i A'));

$pdf->addFont('/home/nick/Desktop/fonts/ARRUSB.TTF');
//$pdf->addFont('/home/nick/Desktop/fonts/AVGARDM.TTF');
//$pdf->addFont('/home/nick/Desktop/fonts/bgothl.ttf');
//$pdf->addFont('/home/nick/Desktop/fonts/BlackoakStd.otf');
//$pdf->addFont('/home/nick/Desktop/fonts/BrushScriptStd.otf');
//$pdf->addFont('/home/nick/Desktop/fonts/ChaparralPro-Bold.otf');
//$pdf->addFont('/home/nick/Desktop/fonts/CooperBlackStd.otf');

$pdf->addText(50, 620, 18, 'Wünsche mir schließlich the Pop PHP Framework!');
$pdf->output();

And here are the PDF files that were produced by the code: http://www.moc10dev.com/pdf/font-arrusb.pdf http://www.moc10dev.com/pdf/font-avgardm.pdf http://www.moc10dev.com/pdf/font-bgothl.pdf http://www.moc10dev.com/pdf/font-blackoak.pdf http://www.moc10dev.com/pdf/font-brushscript.pdf http://www.moc10dev.com/pdf/font-chaparral.pdf http://www.moc10dev.com/pdf/font-cooper.pdf