OK, OK, the previous note helped get me started, but really, it took me most of the day to figure out how to get this "pear install ps" to work. At first, it seemed geared for PHP4. Hopefully, I can save someone the day I just spent. (Don't get me wrong, I learned something new).
If the above statement doesn't work try this because it worked for me using PHP5 and Apache.
1. Forget the "pear install ps", it doesn't work. Whoever wrote that should get punched.
2. Make sure you've got PHP5 and Apache working as you like.
3. Go to http://pecl.php.net/package/ps and download the latest release.
4. Decompress the contents into its own directory somewhere.
5. Read http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.phpize.php which tells you what to do with what you just decompressed.
6. Move the final result (a shared object file) into the directory specified by your php.ini file's "extension_dir".
7. Create an entry in you php.ini (along with other similar statements that should already be there) that says "extension=ps.so"
8. For giggles, restart apache
Worked for me, hope it works for you...
CXIV. PostScript document creation
简介
This module allows to create PostScript documents. It has many similarities with the pdf extension. Actually the API is almost identical and one can in many cases just replace the prefix of each function from pdf_ to ps_. This also works for functions which has no meaning in the PostScript document (like adding hyperlinks) but will have an effect if the document is converted to PDF.
Documents created by this extension are sometimes even superior to documents created with the pdf extension, because pslib's text rendering functions can handle kerning, hyphenation and ligatures which results in much better output of boxed text.
需求
You need at least PHP 4.3.0 and pslib >= 0.1.12. The ps library (pslib) is available at http://pslib.sourceforge.net/.
运行时配置
本扩展模块在 php.ini 中未定义任何配置选项。
预定义常量
以下常量由本扩展模块定义，因此只有在本扩展模块被编译到 PHP 中，或者在运行时被动态加载后才有效。
The following two tables lists all constants defined by the ps extension.
Contact Information
If you have comments, bugfixes, enhancements for either this extension or pslib then please drop me a mail steinm@php.net. Any help is very welcome.
- 目录
- ps_add_bookmark -- Add bookmark to current page
- ps_add_launchlink -- Adds link which launches file
- ps_add_locallink -- Adds link to a page in the same document
- ps_add_note -- Adds note to current page
- ps_add_pdflink -- Adds link to a page in a second pdf document
- ps_add_weblink -- Adds link to a web location
- ps_arc -- Draws an arc counterclockwise
- ps_arcn -- Draws an arc clockwise
- ps_begin_page -- Start a new page
- ps_begin_pattern -- Start a new pattern
- ps_begin_template -- Start a new template
- ps_circle -- Draws a circle
- ps_clip -- Clips drawing to current path
- ps_close_image -- Closes image and frees memory
- ps_close -- Closes a PostScript document
- ps_closepath_stroke -- Closes and strokes path
- ps_closepath -- Closes path
- ps_continue_text -- Continue text in next line
- ps_curveto -- Draws a curve
- ps_delete -- Deletes all resources of a PostScript document
- ps_end_page -- End a page
- ps_end_pattern -- End a pattern
- ps_end_template -- End a template
- ps_fill_stroke -- Fills and strokes the current path
- ps_fill -- Fills the current path
- ps_findfont -- Loads a font
- ps_get_buffer -- Fetches the full buffer containig the generated PS data
- ps_get_parameter -- Gets certain parameters
- ps_get_value -- Gets certain values
- ps_hyphenate -- Hyphenates a word
- ps_lineto -- Draws a line
- ps_makespotcolor -- Create spot color
- ps_moveto -- Sets current point
- ps_new -- Creates a new PostScript document object
- ps_open_file -- Opens a file for output
- ps_open_image_file -- Opens image from file
- ps_open_image -- Reads an image for later placement
- ps_place_image -- Places image on the page
- ps_rect -- Draws a rectangle
- ps_restore -- Restore previously save context
- ps_rotate -- Sets rotation factor
- ps_save -- Save current context
- ps_scale -- Sets scaling factor
- ps_set_border_color -- Sets color of border for annotations
- ps_set_border_dash -- Sets length of dashes for border of annotations
- ps_set_border_style -- Sets border style of annotations
- ps_set_info -- Sets information fields of document
- ps_set_parameter -- Sets certain parameters
- ps_set_text_pos -- Sets position for text output
- ps_set_value -- Sets certain values
- ps_setcolor -- Sets current color
- ps_setdash -- Sets appearance of a dashed line
- ps_setflat -- Sets flatness
- ps_setfont -- Sets font to use for following output
- ps_setgray -- Sets gray value
- ps_setlinecap -- Sets appearance of line ends
- ps_setlinejoin -- Sets how contected lines are joined
- ps_setlinewidth -- Sets width of a line
- ps_setmiterlimit -- Sets the miter limit
- ps_setpolydash -- Sets appearance of a dashed line
- ps_shading_pattern -- Creates a pattern based on a shading
- ps_shading -- Creates a shading for later use
- ps_shfill -- Fills an area with a shading
- ps_show_boxed -- Output text in a box
- ps_show_xy -- Output text at given position
- ps_show -- Output text
- ps_string_geometry -- Gets geometry of a string
- ps_stringwidth -- Gets width of a string
- ps_stroke -- Draws the current path
- ps_symbol_name -- Gets name of a glyph
- ps_symbol_width -- Gets width of a glyph
- ps_symbol -- Output a glyph
- ps_translate -- Sets translation
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User Contributed Notes
billy dot diehl at us dot army dot mil
31-May-2006 06:19
31-May-2006 06:19
norbert at hipersonik dot com
15-Nov-2005 08:30
15-Nov-2005 08:30
For everybody who is frustrated by the not working of 'pear install ps' command under most likely SuSE, at www.hipersonik.com/php_ps_pslib.html is a possible way to get it working. It is also possible to use these instructions under other distributions.
If 'pear install ps' works fine from the start (pslib etc is installed), but ps does not work yet, use dl('ps.so'); This will save you a lot of time.