Re: CF vs PHP for Creating PDF's

From: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:40:18 +0000
Subject: Re: CF vs PHP for Creating PDF's
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You might look into HTMLDOC. This progam takes HTML files as input and converts them to PDF. You could create a template in HTML, use PHP to replace to user specific fields and then call HTMLDOC to create the PDF. HTMLDOC is located at http://easysw.com/htmldoc/ Michael On Saturday, January 20, 2001, at 08:45 PM, DPG Account wrote: > Hi- > > I'm new to this list. I'll start out with hopefully a good question. I have > a project coming up where I need to take some form input insert it into a > premade template and create a custom pdf for a user. The pdf will then be > e-mailed to the user or a link to download it e-mailed to them. > > My question is, which would be better for doing this? I see Cold Fusion has > some tags for creating pdf's but it looks like PHP has more capabilities > along these lines. Also, I see Adobe (http://cpdf1.adobe.com/) has its own > pdf service that might somehow be able to be taken advantage of. > > If anyone has some expertise and knowledge to share along these lines I > would be grateful. > > Thanks for any help, > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > | D A R K P O R T A L G A M E S Tony K. Bounds, Web Wizard | > | http://www.darkportalgames.com > tbounds@darkportalgames.com | > |_____________________________________________________________________| > | You provide the paper. We provide the adventure. | > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >

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