Pure-PHP で帳票とか PDF を作成する ref: http://qiita.com/hidakatsuya/items/05eaae740f1523a87685

composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "thinreports-php/thinreports-php": "@alpha"
    }
}

file1.txt

$ cd ~/Desktop/hello_world
$ composer install

file3.txt

$ php hello_world.php

file4.php

// なんでも
$page->item('any_object')->hide();
$page->item('any_object')->show();
$page->item('any_object')->setVisible(true);

// 四角形, 楕円形, 線形
$page->item('rect_id')->setStyle('border_width', 1)
                      ->setStyle('border_color', '#0000ff')
                      ->setStyle('fill_color', '#ff0000')

// テキスト, テキストブロック
$page->item('text_id')->setStyles(array(
    'color'       => 'blue',
    'align'       => 'center', // left, center, right
    'valign'      => 'bottom'  // top, center, bottom
    'font_size'   => 20,
    'bold'        => true,
    'italic'      => false,
    'linethrough' => true,
    'underline'   => false
));

file5.php

$report->generate(); // => PDF data

hello_world.php

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Tokyo');

$report = new Thinreports\Report('layout.tlf');

# 1st page
$page = $report->addPage();
$page->item('hello_world')->setValue('Hello World');

# 2nd page
$page = $report->addPage();
$page('hello_world')->setValue('Hello Thinreports')
                    ->setStyle('color', '#ff0000');

$report->generate('hello_world.pdf');