FPDF align text LEFT, Center and Right

Question

I've have three cells and i'am trying to align the text to Left, Center and Right.

function Footer() 
{ 
    $this->SetY( -15 ); 


    $this->SetFont( 'Arial', '', 10 ); 

    $this->Cell(0,10,'Left text',0,0,'L');

    $this->Cell(0,10,'Center text:',0,0,'C');

    $this->Cell( 0, 10, 'Right text', 0, 0, 'R' ); 
}

When I ouput my PDF file, center text get automatically aligned right. This is how it looks:

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Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong here and how I can fix this issue?

Jan Slabon · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-22T15:03:47.010

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The new position after a Cell call will be set to the right of each cell if you set the ln-parameter of the Cell method to 0. You have to reset the x-coordinate before the last 2 Cell calls:

class Pdf extends FPDF {
    ...

    function Footer() 
    { 
        $this->SetY( -15 ); 

        $this->SetFont( 'Arial', '', 10 ); 

        $this->Cell(0,10,'Left text',0,0,'L');
        $this->SetX($this->lMargin);
        $this->Cell(0,10,'Center text:',0,0,'C');
        $this->SetX($this->lMargin);
        $this->Cell( 0, 10, 'Right text', 0, 0, 'R' ); 
    } 
}

edited Mar 22 '18 at 15:03

answered May 15 '15 at 11:32

Jan Slabon

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What is `$this`? Where does `lMargin` come from? FPDF has no such property. – st_efan Jun 08 '16 at 08:48
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The Footer method needs to be implemented in an extending class of FPDF. FPDF [has](https://github.com/Setasign/FPDF/blob/master/fpdf.php#L31) this property. – Jan Slabon Jun 08 '16 at 09:08
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What is lMargin? getting error for it. Please mention what to use here. – Rupali Pemare Mar 22 '18 at 11:47
@RupaliPemare: Please see my previous comment for an answer to your question. I also updated my answer accordingly. – Jan Slabon Mar 22 '18 at 15:02
in PyFPF (the Python version of FPDF) this works as well with self.set_x(self.l_margin) – Paul Strobel Mar 30 '22 at 12:20

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 07 '17 at 16:49

Though Jan Slabon's answer was really good I still had issues with the center not being exactly centered on my page, maybe we have different versions of the library and that's what accounts for the slight differences, for instance he uses lMargin and on some versions that's not available. Anyway, the way it worked for me is this:

        $pdf = new tFPDF\PDF();
        //it helps out to add margin to the document first
        $pdf->setMargins(23, 44, 11.7);
        $pdf->AddPage();
        //this was a special font I used
        $pdf->AddFont('FuturaMed','','AIGFutura-Medium.ttf',true);
        $pdf->SetFont('FuturaMed','',16);

        $nombre = "NAME OF PERSON";
        $apellido = "LASTNAME OF PERSON";

        $pos = 10;
        //adding XY as well helped me, for some reaons without it again it wasn't entirely centered
        $pdf->SetXY(0, 10);

        //with SetX I use numbers instead of lMargin, and I also use half of the size I added as margin for the page when I did SetMargins
        $pdf->SetX(11.5);
        $pdf->Cell(0,$pos,$nombre,0,0,'C');

        $pdf->SetX(11.5);
        //$pdf->SetFont('FuturaMed','',12);
        $pos = $pos + 10;
        $pdf->Cell(0,$pos,$apellido,0,0,'C');
        $pdf->Output('example.pdf', 'F');

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 03 '19 at 11:11

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Seems that there is a parameter for this, so ('R' for right-aligning, 'C' for centering):

$pdf->Cell(0, 10, "Some text", 0, true, 'R');

will right align text. Also, notice that the first parameter ('width') is zero, so cell has 100% width.

answered Nov 03 '19 at 11:11

Vyshnia

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FPDF align text LEFT, Center and Right

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