Re: FN-FORUM: PHP to PDF

date posted 15th November 2007 15:40

Thanks all.

Looked at Tony's suggestion of fpdf and works great.

So easy to use, within 10 minutes have got it doing pretty much what I want
it to.

Thanks for all other suggestions, much appreciated.

Regards

Rob

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From: "Dominic Raywood" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: PHP to PDF


>
> Have a look at ImageMagick. Allows you to pretty much convert between any
> format - and it's free!
>
> No time to test it for you I',m afraid, but at least a good pointer for
> you. I use it for converting image formats very successfully; I'm pretty
> sure there's pdf conversion there too.
>
> Rob Owen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently building an on-line knowledgebase. The articles are stored
>> in a MySQL database and are accessed via PHP.
>>
>> I have been asked if there is any way to convert the articles dynamically
>> to PDF format which users can then download.
>>
>> They do not want to store the PDF files on the server to save disk space.
>>
>> Had a quick look on Google but a lot of the articles were not relevant.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
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