PDF to PDF PHP Examples

This page contains various examples of using the PDF to PDF API in PHP. The examples are complete and fully functional. Read more about how to convert PDF to PDF in PHP.

Basic examples

Basic examples

Join 4 local PDF files together to a PDF file

<?php
require "pdfcrowd.php";

try
{
    // create the API client instance
    $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

    // configure the conversion
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/cover.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/proposal.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/price.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/contact.pdf");

    // run the conversion and write the result to a file
    $client->convertToFile("offer.pdf");
}
catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why)
{
    // report the error
    error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n");

    // rethrow or handle the exception
    throw $why;
}

?>

Join 4 local PDF files together to in-memory PDF

<?php
require "pdfcrowd.php";

try
{
    // create the API client instance
    $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

    // configure the conversion
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/cover.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/proposal.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/price.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/contact.pdf");

    // run the conversion and store the result into the "pdf" variable
    $pdf = $client->convert();

    // at this point the "pdf" variable contains PDF raw data and
    // can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc.
}
catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why)
{
    // report the error
    error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n");

    // rethrow or handle the exception
    throw $why;
}

?>

Join 4 local PDF files together and write the resulting PDF to an output stream

<?php
require "pdfcrowd.php";

try
{
    // create the API client instance
    $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

    // configure the conversion
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/cover.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/proposal.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/price.pdf");
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/contact.pdf");

    // create an output stream for the conversion result
    $output_stream = fopen("offer.pdf", "wb");

    // check for a file creation error
    if (!$output_stream)
        throw new \Exception(error_get_last()['message']);

    // run the conversion and write the result into the output stream
    $client->convertToStream($output_stream);

    // close the output stream
    fclose($output_stream);
}
catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why)
{
    // report the error
    error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n");

    // rethrow or handle the exception
    throw $why;
}

?>

Join 4 in-memory PDFs together to a PDF file

<?php
require "pdfcrowd.php";

try
{
    // create the API client instance
    $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

    // configure the conversion
    $client->addPdfRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/cover.pdf"));
    $client->addPdfRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/proposal.pdf"));
    $client->addPdfRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/price.pdf"));
    $client->addPdfRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/contact.pdf"));

    // run the conversion and write the result to a file
    $client->convertToFile("offer.pdf");
}
catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why)
{
    // report the error
    error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n");

    // rethrow or handle the exception
    throw $why;
}

?>

Join 2 in-memory PDFs together with 2 local PDF files to a PDF file

<?php
require "pdfcrowd.php";

try
{
    // create the API client instance
    $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

    // configure the conversion
    $client->addPdfRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/cover.pdf"));
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/proposal.pdf");
    $client->addPdfRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/price.pdf"));
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/contact.pdf");

    // run the conversion and write the result to a file
    $client->convertToFile("offer.pdf");
}
catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why)
{
    // report the error
    error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n");

    // rethrow or handle the exception
    throw $why;
}

?>

Add a watermark to a PDF file

<?php
require "pdfcrowd.php";

try
{
    // create the API client instance
    $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

    // configure the conversion
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/proposal.pdf");
    $client->setPageWatermark("/path/to/watermark.pdf");

    // run the conversion and write the result to a file
    $client->convertToFile("company_offer.pdf");
}
catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why)
{
    // report the error
    error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n");

    // rethrow or handle the exception
    throw $why;
}

?>

Linearize a PDF file

<?php
require "pdfcrowd.php";

try
{
    // create the API client instance
    $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

    // configure the conversion
    $client->addPdfFile("/path/to/not_linearized.pdf");
    $client->setLinearize(true);

    // run the conversion and write the result to a file
    $client->convertToFile("linearized.pdf");
}
catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why)
{
    // report the error
    error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n");

    // rethrow or handle the exception
    throw $why;
}

?>

Get info about the current conversion

<?php
require "pdfcrowd.php";

try
{
    // create the API client instance
    $client = new \Pdfcrowd\PdfToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

    // configure the conversion
    $client->setDebugLog(true);
    $client->addPdfRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/cover.pdf"));
    $client->addPdfRawData(file_get_contents("/path/to/proposal.pdf"));

    // run the conversion and write the result to a file
    $client->convertToFile("offer.pdf");
    
    // print URL to the debug log
    echo "Debug log url: " . $client->getDebugLogUrl() . "\n";
    
    // print the number of available conversion credits in your account
    echo "Remaining credit count: " . $client->getRemainingCreditCount() . "\n";
    
    // print the number of credits consumed by the conversion
    echo "Consumed credit count: " . $client->getConsumedCreditCount() . "\n";
    
    // print the unique ID of the conversion
    echo "Job id: " . $client->getJobId() . "\n";
    
    // print the total number of pages in the output document
    echo "Page count: " . $client->getPageCount() . "\n";
    
    // print the size of the output in bytes
    echo "Output size: " . $client->getOutputSize() . "\n";
}
catch(\Pdfcrowd\Error $why)
{
    // report the error
    error_log("Pdfcrowd Error: {$why}\n");

    // rethrow or handle the exception
    throw $why;
}

?>

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