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Notes Hello world in PDF

<?php
$pdf = pdf_new( );
pdf_open_file($pdf);
pdf_set_info($pdf,’Creator’,’hello.php’);
pdf_set_info;

pdf_set_info($pdf,’Title’,’Hello world (PHP)’);
pdf_begin_page($pdf,612,792);
$font = pdf_findfont($pdf,’Helvetica-Bold’,’host’,0);
pdf_setfont($pdf,$font,38.0);
pdf_show_xy($pdf,’Hello world!’,50,700);
pdf_end_page($pdf);
pdf_set_parameter($pdf, “openaction”, “fitpage”);
pdf_close($pdf); $buf = pdf_get_buffer($pdf);

$len = strlen($buf); header(‘Content-Type: application/pdf’);
header(“Content-Length: $len”);
header(‘Content-Disposition: inline; filename=hello.pdf’);
echo $buf; pdf_delete($pdf);
?>

Follows the basic steps involved in creating a PDF document: creating a new
document, setting some metadata for the document, creating a page, and writing text to the
page. Figure 12.1 shows the output of Example.

Figure 12.1: Hello World in a PDF Document

Hello world!

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