#30756 [WFx->Csd]: Lack of useful documentation for PDF extension

ID: 30756 Updated by: rjs@php.net Reported By: tim dot lokot at printsoft dot com -Status: Wont fix +Status: Closed Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: N/A PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: rjs New Comment: PDFlib GmbH maintains PDF versions of the documentation only. We support too many different programming languages to update language specific versions of the documentation. As it seems to be too complicated to extract the documentation from the source/binary packages of PDFlib we now offer the documentation online on our webserver. http://www.pdflib.com/developer/technical-documentation/manuals/ is the location for all available documentations. For users of PDFlib Lite these documents are relevant: http://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/pdf/manuals/PDFlib-7-tutorial.pdf http://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/pdf/manuals/PDFlib-7-API-reference.pdf Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-01-17 14:49:26] bjori@php.net This extension is old and no longer maintained. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-01-11 06:42:14] kalle@php.net Assigned to maintainer. Rainer, this bug have been long standing and it seems like PDFLib have changed alot over the years, perhaps its worth re-generating the documentation using docgen? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-11 23:26:52] tim dot lokot at printsoft dot com The annoying part about that link is that if you want the english version, you have to download pdflib to extract it. The english version is not downloadable seperately for some reason. Believe me, if I could figure out this extension, I would happily contribute some documentation to it to save others the headaches. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-11 17:16:45] sean@php.net Hi Tim, The reason this extension (and others) have sparse documentation is that none of the (volunteer) documentation team members have had time/ambition to contribute to this section. The Documentation HOWTO is http://php.net/manual/howto/index.html, and the mailing list is phpdoc@lists.php.net. Feel free to contribute patches, and eventually get a CVS account, so you can make your own contributions, directly. S ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-11 09:32:08] vrana@php.net PDFlib documentation is available at http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib/download/#Documentation . I agree with you that there should be a link to it in the PHP documentation. I agree also that the PHP documentation should be updated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/30756 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=30756&edit=1