Example E046 : pangrams

Pangrams in many scripts, a quick way to see which glyphs a font actually covers.

Pangrams in many scripts, a quick way to see which glyphs a font actually covers.

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Source Code

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

/**
 * E046_pangrams.php
 *
 * @since       2026-05-01
 * @category    Library
 * @package     Pdf
 * @author      Nicola Asuni <info@tecnick.com>
 * @copyright   2002-2026 Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com LTD
 * @license     https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html GNU-LGPL v3 (see LICENSE)
 * @link        https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf
 *
 * This file is part of tc-lib-pdf software library.
 */

// NOTE: local file reads (images, fonts, attachments) are restricted to an allowlist of
// trusted paths that covers this package tree, so run the examples in place. To read assets
// from other locations, list them in the 'allowedPaths' entry of the fileOptions constructor
// parameter (see E047_remote_resources_security.php).

// NOTE: run make fonts in the project root to generate the dependencies and example fonts.

// autoloader when using Composer
require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

// define fonts directory
\define('K_PATH_FONTS', \realpath(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf-font/target/fonts'));

// autoloader when using RPM or DEB package installation
//require ('/usr/share/php/Com/Tecnick/Pdf/autoload.php');

// main TCPDF object
$pdf = new \Com\Tecnick\Pdf\Tcpdf(
    unit: \Com\Tecnick\Pdf\Page\Unit::Millimeter,
    isunicode: true,
    subsetfont: false,
    compress: true,
    mode: \Com\Tecnick\Pdf\PdfConformance::None,
    objEncrypt: null,
);

// ----------

$pdf->setCreator('tc-lib-pdf');
$pdf->setAuthor('Nicola Asuni');
$pdf->setSubject('tc-lib-pdf example: 046');
$pdf->setTitle('Pangrams');
$pdf->setKeywords('TCPDF tc-lib-pdf example pangrams unicode multilingual');
$pdf->setPDFFilename('046_pangrams.pdf');

$pdf->setViewerPreferences(['DisplayDocTitle' => true]);

$pdf->enableDefaultPageContent(false);

// unifont covers the full Unicode BMP including Arabic, Hebrew, Thai,
// Devanagari, Hangul, and CJK Unified Ideographs.
$bfont = $pdf->font->insert($pdf->pon, 'unifont', '', 14);

$page = $pdf->addPage(['format' => 'A4']);

$pdf->page->addContent($bfont['out']);

$html = '<h1>Pangrams</h1>';

// English
$html .= '<h2>English</h2>';
$html .= '<p>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p>';

// Arabic (RTL)
$html .= '<h2>Arabic (العربية)</h2>';
$html .= '<div style="text-align:right">صِف خَلقَ خَودِكِ كَمِثلِ الشَّمسِ إِذ بَزَغَت — يَحظى الضَّجيعُ بِها نَجلاءَ مِعطارِ</div>';

// Hebrew (RTL)
$html .= '<h2>Hebrew (עברית)</h2>';
$html .= '<div style="text-align:right">דג סקרן שט בים מאוכזב ולפתע מצא חברה</div>';

// Thai
$html .= '<h2>Thai (ภาษาไทย)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>เป็นมนุษย์สุดประเสริฐเลิศคุณค่า กว่าบรรดาฝูงสัตว์เดรัจฉาน จงฝ่าฟันพัฒนาวิชาการ อย่าล้างผลาญฤๅเข่นฆ่าบีฑาใคร</p>';

// Devanagari (Hindi)
$html .= '<h2>Devanagari (देवनागरी)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>ऋषि सुयश ने प्रख्यात ग्रंथ की रचना करके हमें ज्ञान दिया।</p>';

// Hangul (Korean)
$html .= '<h2>Hangul (한글)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>키스의 고유조건은 입술끼리 만나야 하고 특별한 기술은 필요치 않다</p>';

// Greek
$html .= '<h2>Greek (Ελληνικά)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>Ξεσκεπάζω την ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία.</p>';

// Japanese
$html .= '<h2>Japanese (日本語)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>いろはにほへと ちりぬるを わかよたれそ つねならむ うゐのおくやま けふこえて あさきゆめみし ゑひもせす</p>';

// Russian
$html .= '<h2>Russian (Русский)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>Съешь же ещё этих мягких французских булок, да выпей чаю.</p>';

// Armenian
$html .= '<h2>Armenian (Հայերեն)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>Բոլոր մարդիկ ծնվում են ազատ և հավասար իրենց արժանապատ­վությամբ և իրա­վուն­քնե­րով։</p>';

// Georgian
$html .= '<h2>Georgian (ქართული)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>გთხოვთ ახლავე გაიაროთ რეგისტრაცია უფასო პროგრამაზე.</p>';

// Tamil
$html .= '<h2>Tamil (தமிழ்)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>யாமறிந்த மொழிகளிலே தமிழ்மொழி போல் இனிதாவது எங்கும் காணோம்.</p>';

// Bengali
$html .= '<h2>Bengali (বাংলা)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>সুপ্রিয় বন্ধুগণ, আমরা বাংলা ভাষায় কথা বলি।</p>';

// Amharic
$html .= '<h2>Amharic (አማርኛ)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>ሰው ናቸው ወይስ ሃሳቤን ሳልጨርስ ትዕዛዙን ሰጡ?</p>';

// Khmer
$html .= '<h2>Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>ខ្ញុំអាចញ៉ាំកញ្ចក់បានដោយគ្មានបញ្ហា។</p>';

// Tibetan
$html .= '<h2>Tibetan (བོད་སྐད།)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>ང་གཤེགས་ཀྱི་ཡིག་གུ་ཟ་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་ཡོད། དེས་ང་ལ་གནོད་པ་མི་བྱེད།</p>';

// Chinese (Traditional - Thousand Character Classic)
$html .= '<h2>Chinese (中文)</h2>';
$html .= '<p>天地玄黄,宇宙洪荒。日月盈昃,辰宿列张。寒来暑往,秋收冬藏。闰余成岁,律吕调阳。</p>';

$pdf->addHTMLCell(html: $html, posx: 10, posy: 10, width: 190);

// =============================================================

$rawpdf = $pdf->getOutPDFString();

$pdf->renderPDF(rawpdf: $rawpdf);