1FPDI - Free PDF Document Importer 2================================= 3 4[](https://packagist.org/packages/setasign/fpdi) 5[](https://packagist.org/packages/setasign/fpdi) 6[](https://packagist.org/packages/setasign/fpdi) 7 8:heavy_exclamation_mark: This document refers to FPDI 2. Version 1 is deprecated and development is discontinued. :heavy_exclamation_mark: 9 10FPDI is a collection of PHP classes facilitating developers to read pages from existing PDF 11documents and use them as templates in [FPDF](http://www.fpdf.org), which was developed by Olivier Plathey. Apart 12from a copy of [FPDF](http://www.fpdf.org), FPDI does not require any special PHP extensions. 13 14FPDI can also be used as an extension for [TCPDF](https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF) or 15[tFPDF](http://fpdf.org/en/script/script92.php), too. 16 17## Installation with [Composer](https://packagist.org/packages/setasign/fpdi) 18 19Because FPDI can be used with FPDF, TCPDF or tFPDF we haven't added a fixed dependency in the main 20composer.json file. You need to add the dependency to the PDF generation library of your choice 21yourself. 22 23To use FPDI with FPDF include following in your composer.json file: 24 25```json 26{ 27 "require": { 28 "setasign/fpdf": "1.8.*", 29 "setasign/fpdi": "^2.5" 30 } 31} 32``` 33 34If you want to use TCPDF, you have to update your composer.json to: 35 36```json 37{ 38 "require": { 39 "tecnickcom/tcpdf": "6.6.*", 40 "setasign/fpdi": "^2.5" 41 } 42} 43``` 44 45If you want to use tFPDF, you have to update your composer.json to: 46 47```json 48{ 49 "require": { 50 "setasign/tfpdf": "1.33.*", 51 "setasign/fpdi": "^2.3" 52 } 53} 54``` 55 56## Manual Installation 57 58If you do not use composer, just require the autoload.php in the /src folder: 59 60```php 61require_once('src/autoload.php'); 62``` 63 64If you have a PSR-4 autoloader implemented, just register the src path as follows: 65```php 66$loader = new \Example\Psr4AutoloaderClass; 67$loader->register(); 68$loader->addNamespace('setasign\Fpdi', 'path/to/src/'); 69``` 70 71## Changes to Version 1 72 73Version 2 is a complete rewrite from scratch of FPDI which comes with: 74- Namespaced code 75- Clean and up-to-date code base and style 76- PSR-4 compatible autoloading 77- Performance improvements by up to 100% 78- Less memory consumption 79- Native support for reading PDFs from strings or stream-resources 80- Support for documents with "invalid" data before their file-header 81- Optimized page tree resolving 82- Usage of individual exceptions 83- Several test types (unit, functional and visual tests) 84 85We tried to keep the main methods and logical workflow the same as in version 1 but please 86notice that there were incompatible changes which you should consider when updating to 87version 2: 88- You need to load the code using the `src/autoload.php` file instead of `classes/FPDI.php`. 89- The classes and traits are namespaced now: `setasign\Fpdi` 90- Page boundaries beginning with a slash, such as `/MediaBox`, are not supported anymore. Remove 91 the slash or use a constant of `PdfReader\PageBoundaries`. 92- The parameters $x, $y, $width and $height of the `useTemplate()` or `getTemplateSize()` 93 method have more logical correct default values now. Passing `0` as width or height will 94 result in an `InvalidArgumentException` now. 95- The return value of `getTemplateSize()` had changed to an array with more speaking keys 96 and reusability: Use `width` instead of `w` and `height` instead of `h`. 97- If you want to use **FPDI with TCPDF** you need to refactor your code to use the class `Tcpdf\Fpdi` 98(since 2.1; before it was `TcpdfFpdi`) instead of `FPDI`. 99 100## Example and Documentation 101 102A simple example, that imports a single page and places this onto a new created page: 103 104```php 105<?php 106use setasign\Fpdi\Fpdi; 107// or for usage with TCPDF: 108// use setasign\Fpdi\Tcpdf\Fpdi; 109 110// or for usage with tFPDF: 111// use setasign\Fpdi\Tfpdf\Fpdi; 112 113// setup the autoload function 114require_once('vendor/autoload.php'); 115 116// initiate FPDI 117$pdf = new Fpdi(); 118// add a page 119$pdf->AddPage(); 120// set the source file 121$pdf->setSourceFile("Fantastic-Speaker.pdf"); 122// import page 1 123$tplId = $pdf->importPage(1); 124// use the imported page and place it at point 10,10 with a width of 100 mm 125$pdf->useTemplate($tplId, 10, 10, 100); 126 127$pdf->Output(); 128``` 129 130A full end-user documentation and API reference is available [here](https://manuals.setasign.com/fpdi-manual/). 131