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Nicola Asuni e691de8a1e 6.0.000 (2013-03-17)
- IMPORTANT: PHP4 support has been removed starting from this version. PHP 5.3 or greater version is required.
- Several TCPDF methods and vars were moved to new class files: tcpdf_static.php, tcpdf_colors.php, tcpdf_images.php, tcpdf_font_data.php, tcpdf_fonts.php.
- Files htmlcolors.php, spotcolors.php, unicode_data.php and ecodings_maps.php were removed.
- Barcode classes were renamed and new barcode examples were added.
- Class TCPDF_PARSER was improved.
2013-03-17 14:03:01 +00:00

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TCPDF - README
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Name: TCPDF
Version: 6.0.000
Release date: 2013-03-17
Author: Nicola Asuni
Copyright (c) 2002-2013:
Nicola Asuni
Tecnick.com LTD
Manor Coach House, Church Hill
Aldershot, Hants, GU12 4RQ
UK
www.tecnick.com
URLs:
http: www.tcpdf.org
http: www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf
Description:
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF files on-the-fly without requiring external extensions.
This library includes also a class to extract data from existing PDF documents and
classes to generate 1D and 2D barcodes in various formats.
Main Features:
* no external libraries are required for the basic functions;
* all standard page formats, custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure;
* UTF-8 Unicode and Right-To-Left languages;
* TrueTypeUnicode, OpenTypeUnicode v1, TrueType, OpenType v1, Type1 and CID-0 fonts;
* font subsetting;
* methods to publish some XHTML + CSS code, Javascript and Forms;
* images, graphic (geometric figures) and transformation methods;
* supports JPEG, PNG and SVG images natively, all images supported by GD (GD, GD2, GD2PART, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, XBM, XPM) and all images supported via ImagMagick (http: www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html)
* 1D and 2D barcodes: CODE 39, ANSI MH10.8M-1983, USD-3, 3 of 9, CODE 93, USS-93, Standard 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, CODE 128 A/B/C, 2 and 5 Digits UPC-Based Extention, EAN 8, EAN 13, UPC-A, UPC-E, MSI, POSTNET, PLANET, RMS4CC (Royal Mail 4-state Customer Code), CBC (Customer Bar Code), KIX (Klant index - Customer index), Intelligent Mail Barcode, Onecode, USPS-B-3200, CODABAR, CODE 11, PHARMACODE, PHARMACODE TWO-TRACKS, Datamatrix, QR-Code, PDF417;
* JPEG and PNG ICC profiles, Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Spot Colors and Transparencies;
* automatic page header and footer management;
* document encryption up to 256 bit and digital signature certifications;
* transactions to UNDO commands;
* PDF annotations, including links, text and file attachments;
* text rendering modes (fill, stroke and clipping);
* multiple columns mode;
* no-write page regions;
* bookmarks, named destinations and table of content;
* text hyphenation;
* text stretching and spacing (tracking);
* automatic page break, line break and text alignments including justification;
* automatic page numbering and page groups;
* move and delete pages;
* page compression (requires php-zlib extension);
* XOBject Templates;
* Layers and object visibility.
* PDF/A-1b support.
Installation (full instructions on http: www.tcpdf.org):
1. copy the folder on your Web server
2. set your installation path and other parameters on the config/tcpdf_config.php
3. call the examples/example_001.php page with your browser to see an example
Source Code Documentation:
http://www.tcpdf.org
Additional Documentation:
http://www.tcpdf.org
License
Copyright (C) 2002-2013 Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com LTD
TCPDF is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
TCPDF is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the License
along with TCPDF. If not, see
<http://www.tecnick.com/pagefiles/tcpdf/LICENSE.TXT>.
See LICENSE.TXT file for more information.
Third party fonts
This library includes third party font files released with different licenses.
These fonts are not required by TCPDF but have been included as you convenience.
The original TTF font files have been renamed for compatibility with TCPDF and compressed using the gzcompress PHP function that uses the ZLIB data format (.z files).
To get the original distribution archives please check the information on fonts subfolders:
- DejaVu fonts 2.33 (Bitstream) - Copyright, License and other info: fonts/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33
- GNU FreeFont (GNU-GPLv3) - Copyright, License and other info: fonts/freefont-20100919
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