Re: CF vs PHP for Creating PDF's
| From: | Michael Stearne | Date: | Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:40:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: CF vs PHP for Creating PDF's | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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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,
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