gofpdi

Go Free PDF Document Importer

gofpdi allows you to import an existing PDF into a new PDF. The following PDF generation libraries are supported:

• gopdf

• gofpdf

Acknowledgments

This package’s code is derived from the fpdi library created by Jan Slabon. mrtsbt added support for reading a PDF from an io.ReadSeeker stream and also added support for using gofpdi concurrently. Asher Tuggle added support for reading PDFs that have split xref tables.

Examples

gopdf example

package main

import (
        "github.com/signintech/gopdf"
        "io"
        "net/http"
        "os"
)

func main() {
        var err error

        // Download a Font
        fontUrl := "https://github.com/google/fonts/raw/master/ofl/daysone/DaysOne-Regular.ttf"
        if err = DownloadFile("example-font.ttf", fontUrl); err != nil {
                panic(err)
        }

        // Download a PDF
        fileUrl := "https://tcpdf.org/files/examples/example_012.pdf"
        if err = DownloadFile("example-pdf.pdf", fileUrl); err != nil {
                panic(err)
        }

        pdf := gopdf.GoPdf{}
        pdf.Start(gopdf.Config{PageSize: gopdf.Rect{W: 595.28, H: 841.89}}) //595.28, 841.89 = A4

        pdf.AddPage()

        err = pdf.AddTTFFont("daysone", "example-font.ttf")
        if err != nil {
                panic(err)
        }

        err = pdf.SetFont("daysone", "", 20)
        if err != nil {
                panic(err)
        }

        // Color the page
        pdf.SetLineWidth(0.1)
        pdf.SetFillColor(124, 252, 0) //setup fill color
        pdf.RectFromUpperLeftWithStyle(50, 100, 400, 600, "FD")
        pdf.SetFillColor(0, 0, 0)

        pdf.SetX(50)
        pdf.SetY(50)
        pdf.Cell(nil, "Import existing PDF into GoPDF Document")

        // Import page 1
        tpl1 := pdf.ImportPage("example-pdf.pdf", 1, "/MediaBox")

        // Draw pdf onto page
        pdf.UseImportedTemplate(tpl1, 50, 100, 400, 0)

        pdf.WritePdf("example.pdf")

}

// DownloadFile will download a url to a local file. It's efficient because it will
// write as it downloads and not load the whole file into memory.
func DownloadFile(filepath string, url string) error {
        // Get the data
        resp, err := http.Get(url)
        if err != nil {
                return err
        }
        defer resp.Body.Close()

        // Create the file
        out, err := os.Create(filepath)
        if err != nil {
                return err
        }
        defer out.Close()

        // Write the body to file
        _, err = io.Copy(out, resp.Body)
        return err
}

Generated PDF: example.pdf

Screenshot of PDF:

gofpdf example #1 - import PDF from file

package main

import (
    "github.com/phpdave11/gofpdf"
    "github.com/phpdave11/gofpdf/contrib/gofpdi"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    var err error

    pdf := gofpdf.New("P", "mm", "A4", "")

    // Download a PDF
    fileUrl := "https://tcpdf.org/files/examples/example_026.pdf"
    if err = DownloadFile("example-pdf.pdf", fileUrl); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Import example-pdf.pdf with gofpdi free pdf document importer
    tpl1 := gofpdi.ImportPage(pdf, "example-pdf.pdf", 1, "/MediaBox")

    pdf.AddPage()

    pdf.SetFillColor(200, 700, 220)
    pdf.Rect(20, 50, 150, 215, "F")

    // Draw imported template onto page
    gofpdi.UseImportedTemplate(pdf, tpl1, 20, 50, 150, 0)

    pdf.SetFont("Helvetica", "", 20)
    pdf.Cell(0, 0, "Import existing PDF into gofpdf document with gofpdi")

    err = pdf.OutputFileAndClose("example.pdf")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

// DownloadFile will download a url to a local file. It's efficient because it will
// write as it downloads and not load the whole file into memory.
func DownloadFile(filepath string, url string) error {
    // Get the data
    resp, err := http.Get(url)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    // Create the file
    out, err := os.Create(filepath)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer out.Close()

    // Write the body to file
    _, err = io.Copy(out, resp.Body)
    return err
}

Generated PDF: example.pdf

Screenshot of PDF:

gofpdf example #2 - import PDF from stream

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "github.com/phpdave11/gofpdf"
    "github.com/phpdave11/gofpdf/contrib/gofpdi"
    "io"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    var err error

    pdf := gofpdf.New("P", "mm", "A4", "")

    // Download a PDF into memory                                                                                                                     
    res, err := http.Get("https://tcpdf.org/files/examples/example_038.pdf")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    pdfBytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
    res.Body.Close()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // convert []byte to io.ReadSeeker                                                                                                                
    rs := io.ReadSeeker(bytes.NewReader(pdfBytes))

    // Import in-memory PDF stream with gofpdi free pdf document importer                                                                             
    tpl1 := gofpdi.ImportPageFromStream(pdf, &rs, 1, "/TrimBox")

    pdf.AddPage()

    pdf.SetFillColor(200, 700, 220)
    pdf.Rect(20, 50, 150, 215, "F")

    // Draw imported template onto page                                                                                                               
    gofpdi.UseImportedTemplate(pdf, tpl1, 20, 50, 150, 0)

    pdf.SetFont("Helvetica", "", 20)
    pdf.Cell(0, 0, "Import PDF stream into gofpdf document with gofpdi")

    err = pdf.OutputFileAndClose("example.pdf")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

Generated PDF:

example.pdf

Screenshot of PDF: