Re: How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document
| From: | Gary | Date: | Sun, 02 May 2010 00:43:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document | ||
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"listread" <listread@cze.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, we can first ask the user to fill in a form, but then comes the part
> I don't understand - how to covert it to pdf.
>
> It would be best if we could just fill in the fields on an existing form,
> but it would also work to print the printer friendly form to the server's
> printer queue, which could really be a postscript file we could then
> convert to pdf. In that case, I need to learn how to get PHP to print to
> the server's printer...
>
> - Ron
>
> On 5/1/2010 7:53 AM, nagendra prasad wrote:
>> I am not sure if this works for your project but you can first ask user
>> to
>> fill the form in PHP and then convert it into PDF. What say?
>>
>>
>
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Ron
Take a peek at this
http://fpdf.org/
Writing to a pdf from php is very cumbersome, this seems to take some of the
sting out.
Gary
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