PHP for PDF - Page 2

by: Luca Perugini

October 26, 2000

Installing PDFLib and PHP with PDF Support

Requirements

PHP 4.02+ from http://php.net
PDFLib 3.0.1 from http://www.pdflib.com

This is a little recipe to get PDFlib 3.0.1 working with PHP4:

download PHP directly from http://php.net Uwe Steinman patched ext/pdf/pdf.c to support PDFLib v 3.0.1

download PDFLib 3.0.1 from http://www.pdflib.com
1. apply every patch you find at http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/patches.html
2. Configure, Make & install PDFLib
  
  #./configure --enabled-shared-pdflib
  #make
  #make install
You'll get PDFLib installed in /usr/local/lib .

Configure PHP

       #./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs \
          --with-gd  --with-pdflib=/usr/local --with-mysql=/usr/local \
          --with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd  --with-zlib-dir=/usr    \
          --with-ttf=/usr/local/include             \
          --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-tiff-dir=/usr \
          --with-system-regex=yes --enable-debug=no

       #make
       #make install

Update System Library

       Insert  /usr/local/lib in  /etc/ld.so.conf

       #/sbin/ldconfig

Test & Hack
Now you need to restart Apache
```
       #apachectl restart
    
```
Copy pdfclock.php in your httpd directory... test... and That's all.

Important Notes

To get working PDFLib with fonts you must pay attention to the UPR section of the PDFLib manual.
A simple way to use fonts with PDFLib is to copy the standard UPR description file included in PDFLib tarball, (fonts/pdflib.upr) into your working directory.

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