<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >PDF_open</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="PDF functions" HREF="ref.pdf.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="PDF_set_info_author" HREF="function.pdf-set-info-author.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="PDF_close" HREF="function.pdf-close.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pdf-set-info-author.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pdf-close.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.pdf-open" >PDF_open</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN21344" ></A >PDF_open -- Opens a new pdf document</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN21347" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int pdf_open</CODE >(int file, int info);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > The <B CLASS="function" >PDF_open()</B > function opens a new pdf document. The corresponding file has to be opened with <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A > and the file descriptor passed as argument <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >file</I ></TT >. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >info</I ></TT > is the info structure that has to be created with <A HREF="function.pdf-get-info.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pdf_get_info()</B ></A >. The info structure will be deleted within this function. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The return value is needed as the first parameter in all other functions writing to the pdf document. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This function does not allow the second parameter if pdflib 2.0 support is activated. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A >, <B CLASS="function" >PDF_get_info()</B >, <B CLASS="function" >PDF_close()</B >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pdf-set-info-author.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pdf-close.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >PDF_set_info_author</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.pdf.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >PDF_close</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >