Placing a PDF inside another PDF document with Zend_PDF

Question

I have a pdf file of a logo, about 1"x2" in dimension. Can anybody provide the code snippet to import that PDF logo into another PDF file using the Zend_PDF API's?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to place it like the PNG, TIFF or JPG objects with the Zend_Pdf_Image object.

In other words, I want to be able to place the little 1x2" pdf document on top of a 8.5x11" page, not use the original pdf as a background.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe you can clone a page --like a template. Not sure if this is enough for you, it does look like the preferred way to do things. Of course, if you have a pdf that you want to add a, say, watermark, to, uhh, this is clearly insufficient --but in this case a hi-res png would probably suffice.

Answer 2

It looks like as of this date, there's no way to do it using the Zend_PDF API's. The Zend_Pdf_Page class has a drawContentStream() which looked promising, but when I checked into it, the method body was empty. Maybe a later release of the API will support it.

So, if you want place another PDF inside another dynamically generated PDF document like an image, use FPDI + FPDF/TCPDF.

$pdf = & new FPDI ('P', 'in', 'Letter' );
$pagecount = $pdf->setSourceFile ( APP . 'logo.pdf' );
$tplidx = $pdf->importPage ( 1, '/MediaBox' );

$pdf->addPage ();
$pdf->useTemplate ( $tplidx, 1, 1 );
$pdf->Output ( 'output.pdf', 'F' );

Answer 3

Not what you asked for, but probably what you need (:

Convert the smaller logo pdf to a TIFF/PNG/WhatEver (using, for example, imagemagick's convert, or the GIMP). Then, place this image with the normal Zend API.

This conversion could also be done on the fly, using the Imagick php class, I would imagine.