Re: Bar Charts in PDFs

On 11 February 2011 10:08, Mattias Geniar <mattias@nucleus.be> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Have a look at the library called 'pChart': > http://pchart.sourceforge.net/ > While it's a bit old, it generates very nice looking (anti aliased) > charts, using the default GD library. > > Regards, > Mattias > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Barrett [mailto:tom@miramedia.co.uk] > Sent: vrijdag 11 februari 2011 10:55 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Bar Charts in PDFs > > Hi > > I need to generate some PDF reports (1000s). Part of the report is a set > of > bar charts (the results of a questionnaire). Each question has the same > 5 > answers (v.bad, bad, ok ,good, v.good) and the chart is the % > distribution > of the answers. > > My plan is to create a HTML version, using "some graph drawing"* (saving > a > copy of the HTML to disk), creating a PDF version using html2pdf (saving > a > copy to disk and emailing to the recipient). > > I think html2pdf can handle this. But I have not had much success > finding > something to draw my graphs. Any (free) simple libraries out there I > could > be pointed towards? > > Thanks! > Tom > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > For the PDF production, I'd recommend looking at fpdf [1]. A free PHP class that doesn't use any libraries. It can easily take the image you've created using Mattias's suggestion. I use the fpdf class to take fax documents and add various report data to it and subsequent pages. All fairly simple stuff. Regards, Richard. [1] http://www.fpdf.org/ -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY