9 replies to this topic

[Vaielab]

Hello,

Each year, my client is forced by law (stupid québec) to get a pdf from the governement website, and fill it (a pdf that you can write in it), print it, keep a copie, and send it to our governement.
And he has to do this for each of his client (maybe 600-700) so it take a lot of time. And for each client, he has to get a new pdf from the website since they are all the same exept the barcode at the bottom.

Since I have all the data the governement ask inside a database, I was thinking of doing something that could do it for them.
I already have a script that can download a new pdf for each client, but I don't know how to write inside a writable pdf in PHP.

Anyone has already did something like that?

[Orjan]

I believe this page might help you. Using HTML forms to fill in PDF fields with PHP and FDF I just googled on "fill in pdf form with php" and got a bunch of hits...

[Vaielab]

Thx for the quick answer.
But sadly this will not help me.
The code is for creating a new pdf.
I want to modify some part of a existing pdf, as I would do normally with a writable pdf.

[Orjan]

I guess you could take all other info in the original pdf file and add the form content into a new file?

[Alexander]

Although it seems valid, this goes in to a bit of a vague area of PHP's scope.

If you can afford the time to implement a Zend framework module, they have one that updates every so often - it should be able to modify existing PDF documents:
Zend_Pdf tutorial

If memory serves me, you should be able to search for the item you wish to replace and insert another, you will have to dig around the documentation.

[Vaielab]

I did read about the pdf module of zend framework.
But is it possible to use it without using the zend framework?

[KtueethallLee]

Actually, we can refer to a pdf document compatible barcode library to create, save and print barcode on pdf document, just like some excel barcode add-in and Word barcode add-on.

[seandale]

Actually, we can refer to a pdf document compatible barcode library to create, save and print barcode on pdf document, just like some excel barcode add-in and Word barcode add-on.

Does anyone know of a good method for editing PDFs in PHP? Preferably open-source/zero-license cost methods.

I am thinking along the lines of opening a PDF file, replacing text in the PDF and then writing out the modified version of the PDF?

I have programmatically created PDF files in the past using FPDF, but found it a little unwieldy at times.

[BlackRabbit]

I second seandale. You should take a look at FPDF.

[seandale]

I second seandale. You should take a look at FPDF.

Thanks,I will take a look at it.