Why is this code to center text on a PDF using the PHP Zend_Pdf Library not working?

Question

I\'m attempting to dynamically create PDF documents on the server and send them to the client using the Zend_Pdf library. All text on the PDF needs to be center aligned to the p

Answer 1

If there is anyone looking for solution to Latin american characters like ó,á,é this worked for me

try {
          $drawing_text = iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8', $text);
          $characters    = array();
          for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($drawing_text); $i++) {
              $characters[] = ord ($drawing_text[$i]);
          }
          $glyphs        = $font->glyphNumbersForCharacters($characters);
          $widths        = $font->widthsForGlyphs($glyphs);
          $text_width   = (array_sum($widths) / $font->getUnitsPerEm()) * $font_size;
          return $text_width;
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
          //echo "$e";
        }