Re: Server-side postscript-to-PDF on-the-fly conversion

On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 12:55 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 12:41 AM -0400 3/27/10, Rob Gould wrote: > >Is there a free solution out there that will enable me to take a > >PHP-generated postscript output file, and dynamically, on-the-fly > >convert it to a PDF document and send to the user as a download when > >the user clients on a link? > > > >More description of what I'm trying to do: > > > >1) I've got a web-page that accepts some user input > >2) They hit SUBMIT > >3) I've got a PHP file that takes that input and generates a custom > >Postscript file from it, which I presently serve back to the user. > >On a Mac, Safari and Firefox automatically take the .ps output and > >render it in Preview. > >4) However, in the world of Windows, it seems like it'd be better > >to just convert it on-the-fly into a PDF, so that the user doesn't > >need to worry about having a post-script viewer app installed. > > Rob : > > Do you want something like this: > > http://webbytedd.com/bb/pdf/ > > Cheers, > > tedd > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com > http://ancientstones.com > http://earthstones.com > It doesn't seem to like characters outside the normal range. I tried a name of '©½£¿±®' (cruel parents I know!) and it added a lot of other characters before each one as if it were made up of multibyte characters that it didn't recognise. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk