PDF uses the same geometry as PostScript. It starts from bottom-left corner of page and by default is measured in points (1/72 of an inch).

Page size can be retrieved from a page object:

<?php
$width  = $pdfPage->getWidth();
$height = $pdfPage->getHeight();
            

PDF has a powerful capabilities for colors representation. Zend_Pdf module supports Gray Scale, RGB and CMYK color spaces. Any of them can be used in any place, where Zend_Pdf_Color object is required. Zend_Pdf_Color_GrayScale, Zend_Pdf_Color_Rgb and Zend_Pdf_Color_Cmyk classes provide this functionality:

<?php
// $grayLevel (float number). 0.0 (black) - 1.0 (white)
$color1 = new Zend_Pdf_Color_GrayScale($grayLevel);

// $r, $g, $b (float numbers). 0.0 (minimum intensity) - 1.0 (maximum intensity)
$color2 = new Zend_Pdf_Color_Rgb($r, $g, $b);

// $c, $m, $y, $k (float numbers). 0.0 (minimum intensity) - 1.0 (maximum intensity)
$color3 = new Zend_Pdf_Color_Cmyk($c, $m, $y, $k);
        

All drawing operations can be done in a context of PDF page.

Zend_Pdf_Page class provides a set of drawing primitives:

<?php
/**
 * Draw a line from x1,y1 to x2,y2.
 *
 * @param float $x1
 * @param float $y1
 * @param float $x2
 * @param float $y2
 */
public function drawLine($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2);
        

<?php
/**
 * Draw a rectangle.
 *
 * Fill types:
 * Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL_AND_STROKE - fill rectangle and stroke (default)
 * Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_STROKE      - stroke rectangle
 * Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL        - fill rectangle
 *
 * @param float $x1
 * @param float $y1
 * @param float $x2
 * @param float $y2
 * @param integer $fillType
 */
public function drawRectangle($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $fillType = Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL_AND_STROKE);
        

<?php
/**
 * Draw a polygon.
 *
 * If $fillType is Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL_AND_STROKE or Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL,
 * then polygon is automatically closed.
 * See detailed description of these methods in a PDF documentation
 * (section 4.4.2 Path painting Operators, Filling)
 *
 * @param array $x  - array of float (the X co-ordinates of the vertices)
 * @param array $y  - array of float (the Y co-ordinates of the vertices)
 * @param integer $fillType
 * @param integer $fillMethod
 */
public function drawPolygon($x, $y,
                            $fillType = Zend_Pdf_Page::SHAPE_DRAW_FILL_AND_STROKE,
                            $fillMethod = Zend_Pdf_Page::FILL_METHOD_NON_ZERO_WINDING);
        

<?php
/**
 * Draw a circle centered on x, y with a radius of radius.
 *
 * Angles are specified in radians
 *
 * Method signatures:
 * drawCircle($x, $y, $radius);
 * drawCircle($x, $y, $radius, $fillType);
 * drawCircle($x, $y, $radius, $startAngle, $endAngle);
 * drawCircle($x, $y, $radius, $startAngle, $endAngle, $fillType);
 *
 *
 * It's not a really circle, because PDF supports only cubic Bezier curves.
 * But very good approximation.
 * It differs from a real circle on a maximum 0.00026 radiuses
 * (at PI/8, 3*PI/8, 5*PI/8, 7*PI/8, 9*PI/8, 11*PI/8, 13*PI/8 and 15*PI/8 angles).
 * At 0, PI/4, PI/2, 3*PI/4, PI, 5*PI/4, 3*PI/2 and 7*PI/4 it's exactly a tangent to a circle.
 *
 * @param float $x
 * @param float $y
 * @param float $radius
 * @param mixed $param4
 * @param mixed $param5
 * @param mixed $param6
 */
public function  drawCircle($x, $y, $radius, $param4 = null, $param5 = null, $param6 = null);
        

<?php
/**
 * Draw an ellipse inside the specified rectangle.
 *
 * Method signatures:
 * drawEllipse($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2);
 * drawEllipse($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $fillType);
 * drawEllipse($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $startAngle, $endAngle);
 * drawEllipse($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $startAngle, $endAngle, $fillType);
 *
 * Angles are specified in radians
 *
 * @param float $x1
 * @param float $y1
 * @param float $x2
 * @param float $y2
 * @param mixed $param5
 * @param mixed $param6
 * @param mixed $param7
 */
public function drawEllipse($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $param5 = null, $param6 = null, $param7 = null);
        

Text drawing operations also exist in the context of a PDF page. You can draw a single line of text at any position on the page by supplying the x and y coordinates of the baseline. Current font and current font size are used for text drawing operations (see detailed description below).

<?php
/**
 * Draw a line of text at the specified position.
 *
 * @param string $text
 * @param float $x
 * @param float $y
 * @param string $charEncoding (optional) Character encoding of source text.
 *   Defaults to current locale.
 * @throws Zend_Pdf_Exception
 */
public function drawText($text, $x, $y, $charEncoding = '');
        

<?php
...
$pdfPage->drawText('Hello world!', 72, 720);
...
?>
            

By default, text strings are interpreted using the character encoding method of the current locale. If you have a string that uses a different encoding method (such as a UTF-8 string read from a file on disk, or a MacRoman string obtained from a legacy database), you can indicate the character encoding at draw time and Zend_Pdf will handle the conversion for you. You can supply source strings in any encoding method supported by PHP's iconv() function:

<?php
...
// Read a UTF-8-encoded string from disk
$unicodeString = fread($fp, 1024);

// Draw the string on the page
$pdfPage->drawText($unicodeString, 72, 720, 'UTF-8');
...
?>
            

Zend_Pdf_Page::drawText() uses the page's current font and font size, which is set with the Zend_Pdf_Page::setFont() method:

<?php
/**
 * Set current font.
 *
 * @param Zend_Pdf_Resource_Font $font
 * @param float $fontSize
 */
public function setFont(Zend_Pdf_Resource_Font $font, $fontSize);
        

PDF documents support PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts, as well as two specialized PDF types, Type 3 and composite fonts. There are also 14 standard Type 1 fonts built-in to every PDF viewer: Courier (4 styles), Helvetica (4 styles), Times (4 styles), Symbol, and Zapf Dingbats.

Zend_Pdf currently supports the standard 14 PDF fonts as well as your own custom TrueType fonts. Font objects are obtained via one of two factory methods: Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName($fontName) for the standard 14 PDF fonts or Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithPath($filePath) for custom fonts.

<?php
...
// Create new font
$font = Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName(Zend_Pdf_Font::FONT_HELVETICA);

// Apply font
$pdfPage->setFont($font, 36);
...
?>
            

Constants for the standard 14 PDF font names are defined in the Zend_Pdf_Font class:

You can also use any individual TrueType font (which usually has a '.ttf' extension) or an OpenType font ('.otf' extension) if it contains TrueType outlines. Currently unsupported, but planned for a future release are Mac OS X .dfont files and Microsoft TrueType Collection ('.ttc' extension) files.

To use a TrueType font, you must provide the full file path to the font program. If the font cannot be read for some reason, or if it is not a TrueType font, the factory method will throw an exception:

<?php
...
// Create new font
$goodDogCoolFont = Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithPath('/path/to/GOODDC__.TTF');

// Apply font
$pdfPage->setFont($goodDogCoolFont, 36);
...
?>
            

By default, custom fonts will be embedded in the resulting PDF document. This allows recipients to view the page as intended, even if they don't have the proper fonts installed on their system. If you are concerned about file size, you can request that the font program not be embedded by passing a 'do not embed' option to the factory method:

<?php
...
// Create new font
$goodDogCoolFont = Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithPath('/path/to/GOODDC__.TTF',
                                               Zend_Pdf_Font::EMBED_DONT_EMBED);

// Apply font
$pdfPage->setFont($goodDogCoolFont, 36);
...
?>
            

If the font program is not embedded but the recipient of the PDF file has the font installed on their system, they will see the document as intended. If they do not have the correct font installed, the PDF viewer application will do its best to synthesize a replacement.

Some fonts have very specific licensing rules which prevent them from being embedded in PDF documents. So you are not caught off-guard by this, if you try to use a font that cannot be embedded, the factory method will throw an exception.

You can still use these fonts, but you must either pass the do not embed flag as described above, or you can simply suppress the exception:

<?php
...
$font = Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithPath('/path/to/unEmbeddableFont.ttf',
                                    Zend_Pdf_Font::EMBED_SUPPRESS_EMBED_EXCEPTION);
...
?>
            

This suppression technique is preferred if you allow an end-user to choose their own fonts. Fonts which can be embedded in the PDF document will be; those that cannot, won't.

Font programs can be rather large, some reaching into the tens of megabytes. By default, all embedded fonts are compressed using the Flate compression scheme, resulting in a space savings of 50% on average. If, for some reason, you do not want to compress the font program, you can disable it with an option:

<?php
...
$font = Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithPath('/path/to/someReallyBigFont.ttf',
                                    Zend_Pdf_Font::EMBED_DONT_COMPRESS);
...
?>
            

Finally, when necessary, you can combine the embedding options by using the bitwise OR operator:

<?php
...
$font = Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithPath($someUserSelectedFontPath,
                                    (Zend_Pdf_Font::EMBED_SUPPRESS_EMBED_EXCEPTION |
                                     Zend_Pdf_Font::EMBED_DONT_COMPRESS));
...
?>
            

Zend_Pdf_Page class provides drawImage() method to draw image:

<?php
/**
 * Draw an image at the specified position on the page.
 *
 * @param Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image $image
 * @param float $x1
 * @param float $y1
 * @param float $x2
 * @param float $y2
 */
public function drawImage(Zend_Pdf_Resource_Image $image, $x1, $y1, $x2, $y2);
        

Image objects should be created with Zend_Pdf_Image::imageWithPath($filePath) method (JPG, PNG and TIFF images are supported now):

<?php
...
// load image
$image = Zend_Pdf_Image::imageWithPath('my_image.jpg');

$pdfPage->drawImage($image, 100, 100, 400, 300);
...
?>
            

Important! JPEG support requires PHP GD extension to be configured. Important! PNG support requires ZLIB extension to be configured to work with Alpha channel images.

Refer to the PHP documentation for detailed information (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php). (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zlib.php).

Line drawing style is defined by line width, line color and line dashing pattern. All of this parameters can be assigned by Zend_Pdf_Page class methods:

<?php
/** Set line color. */
public function setLineColor(Zend_Pdf_Color $color);

/** Set line width. */
public function setLineWidth(float $width);

/**
 * Set line dashing pattern.
 *
 * Pattern is an array of floats: array(on_length, off_length, on_length, off_length, ...)
 * Phase is shift from the beginning of line.
 *
 * @param array $pattern
 * @param array $phase
 */
public function setLineDashingPattern($pattern, $phase = 0);
        

Zend_Pdf_Page::drawRectangle(), Zend_Pdf_Page::drawPoligon(), Zend_Pdf_Page::drawCircle() and Zend_Pdf_Page::drawEllipse() methods take $fillType argument as an optional parameter. It can be:

Zend_Pdf_Page::drawPoligon() methods also takes an additional parameter $fillMethod:

PDF page can be rotated before applying any draw operation. It can be done by Zend_Pdf_Page::rotate() method:

<?php
/**
 * Rotate the page around ($x, $y) point by specified angle (in radians).
 *
 * @param float $angle
 */
public function rotate($x, $y, $angle);
        

At any time page graphics state (current font, font size, line color, fill color, line style, page rotation, clip area) can be saved and then restored. Save operation puts data to a graphics state stack, restore operation retrieves it from there.

There are two methods in Zend_Pdf_Page class for these operations:

<?php
/**
 * Save the graphics state of this page.
 * This takes a snapshot of the currently applied style, position, clipping area and
 * any rotation/translation/scaling that has been applied.
 */
public function saveGS();

/**
 * Restore the graphics state that was saved with the last call to saveGS().
 */
public function restoreGS();
        

PDF and Zend_Pdf module support clipping of draw area. Current clip area limits the regions of the page affected by painting operators. It's a whole page initially.

Zend_Pdf_Page class provides a set of methods for clipping operations.

<?php
/**
 * Intersect current clipping area with a rectangle.
 *
 * @param float $x1
 * @param float $y1
 * @param float $x2
 * @param float $y2
 */
public function clipRectangle($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2);
        

<?php
/**
 * Intersect current clipping area with a polygon.
 *
 * @param array $x  - array of float (the X co-ordinates of the vertices)
 * @param array $y  - array of float (the Y co-ordinates of the vertices)
 * @param integer $fillMethod
 */
public function clipPolygon($x, $y, $fillMethod = Zend_Pdf_Page::FILL_METHOD_NON_ZERO_WINDING);
        

<?php
/**
 * Intersect current clipping area with a circle.
 *
 * @param float $x
 * @param float $y
 * @param float $radius
 * @param float $startAngle
 * @param float $endAngle
 */
public function clipCircle($x, $y, $radius, $startAngle = null, $endAngle = null);
        

<?php
/**
 * Intersect current clipping area with an ellipse.
 *
 * Method signatures:
 * drawEllipse($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2);
 * drawEllipse($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $startAngle, $endAngle);
 *
 * @todo process special cases with $x2-$x1 == 0 or $y2-$y1 == 0
 *
 * @param float $x1
 * @param float $y1
 * @param float $x2
 * @param float $y2
 * @param float $startAngle
 * @param float $endAngle
 */
public function clipEllipse($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $startAngle = null, $endAngle = null);
        

Zend_Pdf_Style class provides styles functionality.

Styles can be used to store a set of graphic state parameters and apply it to a PDF page by one operation:

<?php
/**
 * Set the style to use for future drawing operations on this page
 *
 * @param Zend_Pdf_Style $style
 */
public function setStyle(Zend_Pdf_Style $style);

/**
 * Return the style, applied to the page.
 *
 * @return Zend_Pdf_Style|null
 */
public function getStyle();
        

Zend_Pdf_Style class provides a set of methods to set or get different graphics state parameters:

<?php
/**
 * Set line color.
 *
 * @param Zend_Pdf_Color $color
 */
public function setLineColor(Zend_Pdf_Color $color);
        

<?php
/**
 * Get line color.
 *
 * @return Zend_Pdf_Color|null
 */
public function getLineColor();
        

<?php
/**
 * Set line width.
 *
 * @param float $width
 */
public function setLineWidth($width);
        

<?php
/**
 * Get line width.
 *
 * @return float
 */
public function getLineWidth();
        

<?php
/**
 * Set line dashing pattern
 *
 * @param array $pattern
 * @param float $phase
 */
public function setLineDashingPattern($pattern, $phase = 0);
        

<?php
/**
 * Get line dashing pattern
 *
 * @return array
 */
public function getLineDashingPattern();
        

<?php
/**
 * Get line dashing phase
 *
 * @return float
 */
public function getLineDashingPhase();
        

<?php
/**
 * Set fill color.
 *
 * @param Zend_Pdf_Color $color
 */
public function setFillColor(Zend_Pdf_Color $color);
        

<?php
/**
 * Get fill color.
 *
 * @return Zend_Pdf_Color|null
 */
public function getFillColor();
        

<?php
/**
 * Set current font.
 *
 * @param Zend_Pdf_Resource_Font $font
 * @param float $fontSize
 */
public function setFont(Zend_Pdf_Resource_Font $font, $fontSize);
        

<?php
/**
 * Modify current font size
 *
 * @param float $fontSize
 */
public function setFontSize($fontSize);
        

<?php
/**
 * Get current font.
 *
 * @return Zend_Pdf_Resource_Font $font
 */
public function getFont();
        

<?php
/**
 * Get current font size
 *
 * @return float $fontSize
 */
public function getFontSize();