2005-01-13 02:46:28.245712+01 by meuon 3 comments
I'm trying to automate a 'typesetting' job that requires dumping lots of data to a single large landscape PDF document that gets printed every week in large quantities by a print company that requires it in a PDF format. Normally, I abhor PDF's.. FPDF.ORG just gave me reasons to actually LIKE formatting data in PDF's. Really easy to create PDF's from MySQL using PHP.
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#Comment Re: made: 2005-01-13 09:55:34.099899+01 by: dexev
Second meuon's endorsment. I found FPDF a couple of weeks ago -- out of all of the PDF implementations for PHP, it was the only one with a reasonable interface for me. Everyone else seemed to assume I had serious PDF/Postscript experience.
#Comment Re: made: 2005-01-13 17:40:07.696937+01 by: flushy
ps2pdf works wonders here in the office. I've found that some postscript documents wouldn't print correctly, but after converting them to pdf's they came out perfect.
I love pdf's. They are portable. They don't require a huge office suit to read. They are compressed "OK". When html won't do (it must look exactly like this), a huge image is impractical, and portability is key, then pdf is perfect.
#Comment Re: made: 2005-01-15 16:56:31.279785+01 by: chaosmosis
Here's an interesting project also to use xsl-fo-->pdf I hadn't heard of until today: http://xml.apache.org/fop/We will not edit your comments. However, we may delete your comments, or cause them to be hidden behind another link, if we feel they detract from the conversation. Commercial plugs are fine, if they are relevant to the conversation, and if you don't try to pretend to be a consumer. Annoying endorsements will be deleted if you're lucky, if you're not a whole bunch of people smarter and more articulate than you will ridicule you, and we will leave such ridicule in place.
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