Make text wrap in a cell with FPDF?

Text Wrap: The MultiCell is used for print text with multiple lines. It has the same atributes of Cell except for ln and link. $pdf->MultiCell( 200, 40, $reportSubtitle, 1); Line Height: What multiCell does is to spread the given text into multiple cells, this means that the second parameter defines the height of each line … Read more

How to return a PDF from a Web API application

Some Server side code to return PDF (Web Api). [HttpGet] [Route(“documents/{docid}”)] public HttpResponseMessage Display(string docid) { HttpResponseMessage response = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest); var documents = reader.GetDocument(docid); if (documents != null && documents.Length == 1) { var document = documents[0]; docid = document.docid; byte[] buffer = new byte[0]; //generate pdf document MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(); MyPDFGenerator.New().PrintToStream(document, memoryStream); … Read more

PHP get pdf file from base64 encoded data string

Try this piece of code $pdf_base64 = “base64pdf.txt”; //Get File content from txt file $pdf_base64_handler = fopen($pdf_base64,’r’); $pdf_content = fread ($pdf_base64_handler,filesize($pdf_base64)); fclose ($pdf_base64_handler); //Decode pdf content $pdf_decoded = base64_decode ($pdf_content); //Write data back to pdf file $pdf = fopen (‘test.pdf’,’w’); fwrite ($pdf,$pdf_decoded); //close output file fclose ($pdf); echo ‘Done’;

How to search contents of multiple pdf files?

There is pdfgrep, which does exactly what its name suggests. pdfgrep -R ‘a pattern to search recursively from path’ /some/path I’ve used it for simple searches and it worked fine. (There are packages in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.) Since version 1.3.0 pdfgrep supports recursive search. This version is available in Ubuntu since Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal).

IText reading PDF like pdftotext -layout?

The problem with your approach inserting spaces like this final Float dist = chunk.distanceFromEndOf(lastChunk)/3; for(int i = 0; i<Math.round(dist); i++) { sb.append(‘ ‘); } is that it assumes that the current position in the StringBuffer exactly corresponds to the end of lastChunk assuming a character width width of 3 user space units. This needs not … Read more

How can I serve a PDF to a browser without storing a file on the server side?

The people who advise you to use response.getOutputStream() instead of creating a FileOutputStream are right. See for instance the Hello Servlet from Chapter 9 of my book: public class Hello extends HttpServlet { protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { response.setContentType(“application/pdf”); try { // step 1 Document document = new Document(); // … Read more