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Name

pdf_stringwidth — Returns width of text in current font

Synopsis

int pdf_stringwidth(pdf, text[, font], size); resource pdf: PDF object identifier string text: Text to display int font (optional): Font identifier double size: Font size

Returns

Text width

Description

Gets the length of the specified text of size size and using the font identifier returned from pdf_findfont() . Takes into account text modifications by parameters set using pdf_set_value() such as chartspacing, horizscaling and wordspacing.

Version

Since versions 3.0.6 and 4.0

Example

Example 986. Get string width

<?php

// set string properties
$string = "Here is some text";
$size = 20;

// create new document
$pdf = pdf_new();
pdf_open_file($pdf);
pdf_begin_page($pdf, 500, 700);

$font = pdf_findfont($pdf, "Courier", "host", 0);
pdf_setfont($pdf, $font, $size);
pdf_show_xy($pdf, $string, 10, 650);

// get font size
$size = pdf_stringwidth($pdf, string, $font, $size);
pdf_show_xy($pdf, "Size of text was: $size", 10, 600);

pdf_end_page($pdf);
pdf_close($pdf);

// output document
$data = pdf_get_buffer($pdf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=test.pdf");
header("Content-length: " . strlen($data));
echo $data;
?>

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