Hello Student The formats that LiveDocx supports are listed here:
http://www.phplivedocx.org/2009/01/12/supported-file-formats-in-phplivedocx/ Unfortunately, it does not support Scribus. Writing text into a PDF file is always tricky, as your programming logic has to calculate where to break lines etc. This can get very time consuming. I do not know whether you are able to get your customers to produce templates in one of the word processing file formats that LiveDocx supports, but if you can, your task of populating the templates would be much easier. I personally am not familiar with the inner working of the Scribus format, hence, I cannot say whether it is possible to manipulate the source files, either directly or via the CLI. Can anyone else shed some light on this? Best regards Jonathan Maron On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, student <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > I had a look at this. > The templates we fill with customer data are produced using scribus > (http://www.scribus.net/). > In particular I would prefer to manipulate the Scribus Source fiels. But > unfortunately Scribus isnt able to be invoked via commandline on server. > So the only way is to write the data as text into an existing pdf for > the moment. > Or am I wrong? > > Regards student > > Am 01.03.2011 13:15, schrieb Jonathan Maron [via Zend Framework Community]: >> Hello Student >> >> Looking at the sample code that you provide, it looks like you are >> doing some basic mail merge. >> >> You can certainly use Zend_Pdf for this. >> >> However, there is another component, Zend_Service_LiveDocx_MailMerge, >> which offers a really easy way to populate templates, created in a >> word processing WYSIWYG package (for example, MS Word) directly in >> PHP, using the Zend Framework. >> >> The idea is simple: >> >> 1) You make a template in MS Word (for example). >> 2) In this template, you add so called "merge fields". >> 3) Using only a few lines of code, you populate the merge fields in >> the template. >> 4) You then save the document to PDF (or any other supported format). >> >> Using this approach would be particularly advantageous to you, as you >> can also save the document to image files (PNG, GIF, JPG etc.) -- >> perfect for the thumbnails that you need. You can specify the size of >> the resulting images files via the API. >> >> The documentation is here: >> >> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.service.livedocx.html >> >> Additionally, I run a blog dedicated to the component at: >> >> http://www.phplivedocx.org >> >> Which contains a number of sample applications. >> >> Getting started guide: >> >> http://www.phplivedocx.org/articles/getting-started-with-phplivedocx-zf/ >> >> Very simple sample applications: >> >> http://www.phplivedocx.org/articles/brief-introduction-to-phplivedocx/ >> >> List of supported formats: >> >> http://www.phplivedocx.org/2009/01/12/supported-file-formats-in-phplivedocx/ >> >> You may also be interested in a session that I held at PHP >> Unconference Europe a couple of weeks ago: >> >> http://www.phplivedocx.org/2011/02/19/slides-from-php-unconference-europe-2011/ >> >> If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me. >> >> Best regards >> >> Jonathan Maron >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:18 AM, student <[hidden email] >> </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=3329701&i=0>> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am looking forward to find some help regarding the creation of >> thumbnails >> > from a modified pdf. >> > >> > I use Zend_PDF to add some text and images to an existing pdf. >> > The way I use Zend is this: >> > $pdf = Zend_PDF::load(realpath($path)); >> > $page = $pdf->pages[$page]; >> > $font = getFont(); //here I load the Calibri.ttf or Eurostile.ttf e.g. >> > $page->setFont($font, $fontSize); >> > $page->drawText($tmp, $posx, $posY, "UTF-8"); >> > $pdf->save($savePath); >> > >> > After this I use GhostScript to generate thumbnails using the >> following: >> > >> > gs -dBatch -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=png16m -r300 -dTextAlphaBits=4 >> > -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 >> > -sOutputFile=out/pdf_page1_thumbnail.png pdfs/pdf.pdf -c quit >> > >> > The problem is, that in most cases the inserted text is in a >> different font >> > size or the letters are overlaying each other. The modified pdf >> documents >> > are good. >> > >> > Here is a link that shows some generated thumbnails: >> > https://printportal.la-well.de/thumbs.php >> > >> > I dont know if I am in the right place here. Please let me know, if >> you have >> > any hints or solutions to it. >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > student >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/Crappy-Thumbnails-from-generated-pdf-tp3329564p3329564.html >> <http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/Crappy-Thumbnails-from-generated-pdf-tp3329564p3329564.html?by-user=t> >> > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the >> discussion below: >> http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/Crappy-Thumbnails-from-generated-pdf-tp3329564p3329701.html >> >> To unsubscribe from Crappy Thumbnails from generated pdf, click here >> <http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=3329564&code=cmlmZmVydEBsYS13ZWxsLmRlfDMzMjk1NjR8LTIwNjU4MjgwNjE=>. >> > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/Crappy-Thumbnails-from-generated-pdf-tp3329564p3329824.html > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
