PHP and MySQL Web Development 4th Ed-tqw-_darksiderg

Solution Overview
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Font sizes are specified in points. In this case, we chose host character encoding.The
allowable values are winansi, builtin, macroman, ebcdic, or host. The meanings of the
different values are as follows:
n winansi—Uses ISO 8859-1 plus special characters added by Microsoft, such as a
Euro symbol.
n builtin—Uses the encoding built into the font. Normally used with non-Latin
fonts and symbols.
n macroman—Uses Mac Roman encoding.The default Macintosh character set.
n ebcdic—Uses EBCDIC as used on IBM AS/400 systems.
n host—Automatically selects macroman on a Macintosh, ebcdic on an EBCDICbased
system, and winansi on all other systems.
If you do not need to include special characters, the choice of encoding is not important.
A PDF document is not like an HTML document or a word processor document.
Text does not by default start at the top left and flow onto other lines as required.You
need to choose where to place each line of text. As already mentioned, PDF uses points
to specify locations.The origin (the x,y coordinate [0, 0]) is at the bottom-left corner of
the page.
Given that the page is 612 by 792 points, the point (50, 700) is about two-thirds of an
inch from the left of the page and about one-and-one-third inches from the top.To set
the text position at this point, you use
pdf_set_text_pos($pdf, 50, 700);
Finally, having set up the page, you can write some text on it.To add text at the current
position using the current font, you use pdf_show().
The line
pdf_show($pdf,'Hello,world!');
adds the text “Hello World!” to the document.
To move to the next line and write more text, you use pdf_continue_text().To
add the string “(says PHP)”, you use
pdf_continue_text($pdf,'(says PHP)');
The exact location where this text will appear depends on the font and size selected.
If, rather than lines or phrases, you are using contiguous paragraphs, you might find
the function pdf_show_boxed() more useful. It allows you to declare a text box and
flow text into it.
After you have finished adding elements to a page, you need to call pdf_end_page()
as follows:
pdf_end_page($pdf);