Question

I am facing an abnormal problem when trying to write a rectangle with a color in PDF using Zend_PDF as shown in the below diagram:

Code is as follow :

require_once 'Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php';
// register auto-loader
$loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
try 
{
    // create PDF
    $pdf = new Zend_Pdf();
    // create A4 page
    $page = new Zend_Pdf_Page(Zend_Pdf_Page::SIZE_A4);

    $page->setFillColor(new Zend_Pdf_Color_Rgb(133,185,13));
    $page->drawRectangle(40, 500, 560, 475);
    ...........................
    ...........................
}
catch (Exception $e) 
{
    die('Application error: ' . $e->getMessage());
}

Issue :

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Rectangle is their in the PDF But the color is not shown. Also I tried to change some color code. And I found that if any one of the color code[i.e. R/G/B] is set to 0 then only the color is shown in the PDF doc.

What may be the possible reason? Or I made any mistake?

Please help.!

Thanks In Advance

Answer 1

You are not using in the proper way Zend_Pdf_Color_Rgb

It get float for each of $r, $g, $b.
But will be a pain to figure it out the proper color using RGB anyway.
You can swich to HTML colors using this:

$page->setFillColor(new Zend_Pdf_Color_Html('#cc0033'));
$page->drawRectangle(40, 500, 560, 475);

If you really want to go with Rgb check Zend_Pdf_Color_Rgb Documentation
and Example page