I’ve this snippet, in Laravel, where there is a wrapper. Note I’m using directly mPDF, instead of wrapper function
JavaScript
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$pdf = new MPdf();
$mpdf = $pdf->getMpdf();
$mpdf->SetSourceFile(public_path() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'pdf' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'my_template.pdf');
$template = $mpdf->ImportPage(1);
$mpdf->UseTemplate($template);
$mpdf->WriteCell(130,140, $text_to_write );
My need is simply to write my text in bold. I don’t ever need to change font file.
How ?!
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Answer
I resolved accessing underlying FPDF functions.
Recap: Laravel-mpdf is a wrapper for mPDF. mPDF ‘wraps’ and enhance one of a few pdf handling libraries.
It’s stated here: https://mpdf.github.io/ : “It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF with a number of enhancements”
Having this info, I simply tried to use FPDF functions and they worked. FPDF docs: http://www.fpdf.org/en/doc
Snippet
JavaScript
$pdf = new MPdf();
$mpdf = $pdf->getMpdf();
$mpdf->SetSourceFile('name_and_path_of_template_file.pdf');
$template = $mpdf->ImportPage(1);
$mpdf->UseTemplate($template);
$mpdf->SetFont('Arial','B', 11);
$mpdf->WriteText(11,82, $what_to_write_in_bold );
$mpdf->SetFont('Arial','', 10);
$mpdf->WriteText(164, 243.46, $what_to_write_in_noraml);
$mpdf->Output();