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Extend Existing PDFs

Intro

There is the possibility to load existing PDF documents and use them as template. Under the hood pdfviewhelpers uses FPDI to import PDF documents as template. You must include the static TypoScript template of the extension in order to make this example work.

TypoScript

pdfpage = PAGE
pdfpage {
        10 = FLUIDTEMPLATE
        10 {
                file = EXT:pdfviewhelpers/Resources/Public/Examples/ExtendExistingPDFs/Template.html
        }
        # ensure there is no other output apart from the pdf
        # take a look at the generated pdf file (end!) in a text editor to verify there is no other output
        # like warnings, error messages or html code
        config {
                disableAllHeaderCode = 1
                xhtml_cleaning = 0
                admPanel = 0
        }
}

Fluid Template

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xmlns:f="http://typo3.org/ns/TYPO3/CMS/Fluid/ViewHelpers"
          xmlns:pdf="http://typo3.org/ns/Bithost/Pdfviewhelpers/ViewHelpers"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://typo3.org/ns/Bithost/Pdfviewhelpers/ViewHelpers https://pdfviewhelpers.bithost.ch/schema/2.1.xsd"
          data-namespace-typo3-fluid="true">

<pdf:document sourceFile="EXT:pdfviewhelpers/Resources/Public/Examples/ExtendExistingPDFs/pdf_template.pdf">
        <pdf:page importPage="1" margin="{top: 80, right: 20, bottom: 40, left: 20}">
                <pdf:headline>Here is your header</pdf:headline>
                <pdf:text>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt.</pdf:text>
                <pdf:html autoHyphenation="1">
                        <h1 style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px;">Here is the HTML header</h1>
                        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur
                                sadipscingelitrseddiamnonumyeirmodtemporinviduntutlaboreetdoloremagnaaliquyameratseddiam
                                voluptua. At vero eos et dolores et ea rebum. Stet
                                clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est
                                Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit
                                diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et
                                dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At
                                vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea
                                rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren est Lorem ipsum
                                dolor sit amet.</p>
                        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing
                                elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut
                                labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam
                                voluptua. At vero eos et dolores et ea rebum. Stet
                                clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est
                                Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit
                                diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et
                                dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At
                                vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea
                                rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren est Lorem ipsum
                                dolor sit amet.</p>
                </pdf:html>
        </pdf:page>
</pdf:document>

</html>

PDF Output

Extend Existing PDFs Example