tcpdf.php File Reference

This is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. More...

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Data Structures
class	TCPDF
	PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. More...

Namespaces
	com\tecnick\tcpdf
	TCPDF language file (contains translated texts).

Detailed Description

This is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions.

TCPDF project (http://www.tcpdf.org) was originally derived in 2002 from the Public Domain FPDF class by Olivier Plathey (http://www.fpdf.org), but now is almost entirely rewritten.

TCPDF main features are:

• no external libraries are required for the basic functions;
• all standard page formats, custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure;
• UTF-8 Unicode and Right-To-Left languages;
• TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, Type1 and CID-0 fonts;
• font subsetting;
• methods to publish some XHTML + CSS code, Javascript and Forms;
• images, graphic (geometric figures) and transformation methods;
• supports JPEG, PNG and SVG images natively, all images supported by GD (GD, GD2, GD2PART, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, XBM, XPM) and all images supported via ImagMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html)
• 1D and 2D barcodes: CODE 39, ANSI MH10.8M-1983, USD-3, 3 of 9, CODE 93, USS-93, Standard 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, CODE 128 A/B/C, 2 and 5 Digits UPC-Based Extention, EAN 8, EAN 13, UPC-A, UPC-E, MSI, POSTNET, PLANET, RMS4CC (Royal Mail 4-state Customer Code), CBC (Customer Bar Code), KIX (Klant index - Customer index), Intelligent Mail Barcode, Onecode, USPS-B-3200, CODABAR, CODE 11, PHARMACODE, PHARMACODE TWO-TRACKS, Datamatrix, QR-Code, PDF417;
• JPEG and PNG ICC profiles, Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Spot Colors and Transparencies;
• automatic page header and footer management;
• document encryption up to 256 bit and digital signature certifications;
• transactions to UNDO commands;
• PDF annotations, including links, text and file attachments;
• text rendering modes (fill, stroke and clipping);
• multiple columns mode;
• no-write page regions;
• bookmarks, named destinations and table of content;
• text hyphenation;
• text stretching and spacing (tracking);
• automatic page break, line break and text alignments including justification;
• automatic page numbering and page groups;
• move and delete pages;
• page compression (requires php-zlib extension);
• XOBject Templates;
• Layers and object visibility;
• PDF/A-1b support.

Tools to encode your unicode fonts are on fonts/utils directory.

Definition in file tcpdf.php.