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This documentation is not using the current rendering mechanism and is probably outdated. The extension maintainer should switch to the new system. Details on how to use the rendering mechanism can be found here.

Advanced Customization

To completely customize the PDF creation you have the options to write your own ViewHelper or provide your own PDF class. If you feel like your custom ViewHelper might be useful for everybody, feel free to create a pull request!

Create your own ViewHelper

Creating your own ViewHelper might be necessary if you need access to a TCPDF method that is not yet available through the implemented ViewHelpers or if you have a complex layout to realise.

When writing your own ViewHelper you have the options to extend AbstractContentElementViewHelper or AbstractPDFViewHelper. If your ViewHelper will add some content to the PDF (e.g. TextViewHelper or LineViewHelper), you should extend AbstractContentElementViewHelper in order to inherit its position properties and allow the header and footer ViewHelpers to work properly. If your ViewHelper does not add content (e.g. GetPosXViewHelper or PageBreakViewHelper) you can directly extend AbstractPDFViewHelper.

Within your ViewHelper you have full access to the public API of TCPDF using $this->getPDF(). Please see the TCPDF examples in order to see what you can do with it: https://tcpdf.org/examples/

The following example shows a ViewHelper that could be used to render a TCPDF barcode.

PHP

<?php

namespace Vendor\YourExtension\ViewHelpers;

/***
 *
 * This file is part of the "PDF ViewHelpers" Extension for TYPO3 CMS.
 *
 *  (c) 2016 Markus Mächler <markus.maechler@bithost.ch>, Bithost GmbH
 *           Esteban Marin <esteban.marin@bithost.ch>, Bithost GmbH
 *
 *  All rights reserved
 *
 *  This script is part of the TYPO3 project. The TYPO3 project is
 *  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  The GNU General Public License can be found at
 *  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
 *
 *  This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  This copyright notice MUST APPEAR in all copies of the script!
 ***/

use Bithost\Pdfviewhelpers\ViewHelpers\AbstractContentElementViewHelper;

/**
 * BarcodeViewHelper
 *
 * @author Markus Mächler <markus.maechler@bithost.ch>, Esteban Marin <esteban.marin@bithost.ch>
 */
class BarcodeViewHelper extends AbstractContentElementViewHelper {
    /**
     * @param string $title
     * @param string $code
     * @param string $type
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function render($title, $code, $type)
    {
        $style = [
            'position' => '',
            'align' => 'C',
            'stretch' => FALSE,
            'fitwidth' => TRUE,
            'cellfitalign' => '',
            'border' => TRUE,
            'hpadding' => 'auto',
            'vpadding' => 'auto',
            'fgcolor' => [0,0,0],
            'bgcolor' => FALSE,
            'text' => TRUE,
            'font' => 'helvetica',
            'fontsize' => 8,
            'stretchtext' => 4
        ];

        $this->getPDF()->SetFontSize($this->settings['generalText']['fontSize']);
        $this->getPDF()->Cell(0, 0, $title, 0, 1);

        $this->getPDF()->write1DBarcode($code, $type, '', '', '', 18, 0.4, $style, 'N');
    }
}

Fluid

{namespace pdf=Bithost\Pdfviewhelpers\ViewHelpers}
{namespace you=Vendor\YourExtension\ViewHelpers}

<pdf:document>
        <pdf:page>
                <you:barcode title="Some Title" code="CODE 39" type="C39" />
        </pdf:page>
</pdf:document>

Extend BasePDF class

You can provide your own PDF class in the TypoScript settings in order to customize its behaviour as you want. Your own PDF class is required to extend Bithost\Pdfviewhelpers\Model\BasePDF.

TypoScript

plugin.tx_pdfviewhelpers.settings {
        config {
                class = Vendor\YourExtension\Model\MyPDF
        }
}

PHP

<?php

namespace Vendor\YourExtension\Model;

/***
 *
 * This file is part of the "PDF ViewHelpers" Extension for TYPO3 CMS.
 *
 *  (c) 2016 Markus Mächler <markus.maechler@bithost.ch>, Bithost GmbH
 *           Esteban Marin <esteban.marin@bithost.ch>, Bithost GmbH
 *
 *  All rights reserved
 *
 *  This script is part of the TYPO3 project. The TYPO3 project is
 *  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  The GNU General Public License can be found at
 *  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
 *
 *  This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  This copyright notice MUST APPEAR in all copies of the script!
 ***/

use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility;

/**
 * MyPDF
 *
 * @author Markus Mächler <markus.maechler@bithost.ch>, Esteban Marin <esteban.marin@bithost.ch>
 */
class MyPDF extends \Bithost\Pdfviewhelpers\Model\BasePDF
{
    /**
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($orientation='P', $unit='mm', $format='A4', $unicode=true, $encoding='UTF-8', $diskcache=false, $pdfa=false)
    {
        $myFormat = 'A3';
        parent::__construct($orientation, $unit, $myFormat, $unicode, $encoding, $diskcache, $pdfa);
    }

    /**
     * @return void
     */
    public function basePdfHeader()
    {
        $extPath = ExtensionManagementUtility::extPath('pdfviewhelpers');
        $address = "Bithost GmbH \nMilchubckstrasse 83 \nCH-8057 Zürich \n\nhallo@bithost.ch \n044 585 28 20 \n\nwww.bithost.ch";

        $this->SetTextColor(140, 140, 140);
        $this->SetFontSize(11);

        $this->Image($extPath . 'Resources/Public/Examples/BasicUsage/logo.png', 15, 15, 56, 24, '', '', '', FALSE, 300, '', FALSE, FALSE, 0, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE);
        $this->MultiCell(null, null, $address, 0, 'R', FALSE, 1, 0, 45, TRUE, 0, FALSE, TRUE, 0, 'T', FALSE);
    }

    /**
     * @return void
     */
    public function basePdfFooter()
    {
        $this->SetY(-20);
        $this->SetDrawColor(140, 140, 140);
        $this->Line(15, $this->y, $this->w - 15, $this->y);

        $this->SetY(-17);
        $this->SetTextColor(140, 140, 140);
        $this->SetFontSize(11);
        $this->Cell($this->w - 15, 10, 'Page '.$this->getAliasNumPage() . ' of '.$this->getAliasNbPages(), 0, false, 'C', 0, '', 1, false, 'T', 'M');
    }
}