joining pdf files in php

[Paul Czubilinski]

Hello,

I would like to join few pdf files uploaded separetly into my website
into one downloable pdf file. Is it possible in php or is it neccessary
to download all these files one by one?

Thx for help,
Paul

[Dana Cartwright]

Re: joining pdf files in php

"Paul Czubilinski" <pawel@deso.p l> wrote in message
news:1139143558 .001187.267080@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> I would like to join few pdf files uploaded separetly into my website
> into one downloable pdf file.[/color]

I use the free PDF library called FPDF with the FPDI extension at
fpdi.setasign.d e

This lets you create a PDF file and then import other PDF files into it.

The documentation for FPDF mentions two free tools to catenate PDF files,
but I have no experience with them (see item #20 in the FAQ for FPDF).

[Toby Inkster]

Re: joining pdf files in php

Paul Czubilinski wrote:
[color=blue]
> I would like to join few pdf files uploaded separetly into my website
> into one downloable pdf file.[/color]

If you've got Ghostscript installed on your server, it's easy enough to
join a few PDFs together...

<?php
# Where is Ghostscript installed?
$gs = '/usr/bin/gs';

# Which files do we want to join together?
# Specify them in the right order!
$infiles = array(
'/home/me/public_html/pdf/coverpage.pdf',
'/home/me/public_html/pdf/part1.pdf',
'/home/me/public_html/pdf/part2.pdf',
'/home/me/public_html/pdf/part3.pdf',
'/home/me/public_html/pdf/index.pdf'
);

# What is the output file name?
$outfile = '/home/me/public_html/pdf/out.pdf';

# Assemble arguments to supply to Ghostscript.
$args = "-dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrit e ";
$args .= "-sOutputFile='{$ outfile}' ";
foreach ($infiles as $f)
$args .= "'{$f}' ";

# Call Ghostscript to do the real work.
system("$gs $args");
?>

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[Justin Koivisto]

Re: joining pdf files in php

Paul Czubilinski wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I would like to join few pdf files uploaded separetly into my website
> into one downloable pdf file. Is it possible in php or is it neccessary
> to download all these files one by one?
>
> Thx for help,
> Paul
>[/color]

I have a bookmark or at least example code on my computer in the office.
I will see if I can dig it up tomorrow when I am there. I can't remember
exactly how I went about doing it, but I think it was using an existing
package I found on the net...

[Justin Koivisto]

Re: joining pdf files in php

Justin Koivisto wrote:[color=blue]
> Paul Czubilinski wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> I would like to join few pdf files uploaded separetly into my website
>> into one downloable pdf file. Is it possible in php or is it neccessary
>> to download all these files one by one?[/color]
>
> I have a bookmark or at least example code on my computer in the office.
> I will see if I can dig it up tomorrow when I am there. I can't remember
> exactly how I went about doing it, but I think it was using an existing
> package I found on the net...[/color]

fpdi:

http://fpdi.setasign.de/

<?php
// This was created for use with FPDI 1.01
$dir = 'pdfs/';

$pdfs = $_POST['pdfs'];
if($pdfs) {
// this is a test file for appending pages of PDF files together to
create a new file
// define('FPDF_FO NTPATH','font/');
require 'fpdi.php';

class concat_pdf extends fpdi {
var $files = array();

function concat_pdf($ori entation='P',$u nit='mm',$forma t='A4') {
parent::fpdi($o rientation,$uni t,$format);
}

function set_files($file s) {
$this->files = $files;
}

function concat() {
foreach($this->files AS $file) {
$pagecount = $this->setSourceFile( $file);
for ($i = 1; $i <= $pagecount; $i++) {
$tplidx = $this->ImportPage($i) ;
$this->AddPage();
$this->useTemplate($t plidx);
}
}
}

}

$pdf= new concat_pdf();

$pdf->set_files($pdf s);
$pdf->concat();
$pdf->Output("newpdf .pdf","I");
} else {
echo '<form method="post" action="index.p hp">';
echo '<div style="padding: 3px; font-weight: bold;">Please check the
PDFs you would like to combine into one:</div>';
$dh = opendir($dir);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dh))) {
if (preg_match('/\.pdf$/i', $file)) {
echo '<div style="padding: 3px;"><input type="checkbox" name="pdfs[]"
value="'.$dir.$ file.'" /> &nbsp;'.$file.' </div>';
}
}
echo '<div style="padding: 3px;"><input type="submit" name="submit"
value="Submit" /></div>';
echo '</form>';
}
?>


I did notice that there is a newer version out now, but I haven't done
anything with this for about a year now...

--
Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.co m

http://koivi.com

[Paul Czubilinski]

Re: joining pdf files in php

Many thanks Justin, I will try your code.

Paul