Re: pdflib

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Ben Edwards wrote: > I have a html report and am looking into using phplib to generate a pdf > instead. I have got it installed and started experimenting with it but > ether it is extremely convoluted or I am missing something. How would I > create a simple list report (the type you would do in a table). It seems > all I can to is specify X/Y coordinates and print text. Don't know how > many pages the report will be for a start. I haven't found it to be particularly easy. It works okay for simple things - our example being a web-based generator for simple office stationery like business cards and envelopes - but for serious text processing you should probably look into adding a few pieces to the process. You can easily generate, for instance, RTF from a database and then pipe it through any of several freely-available programs that will turn that into a PDF. This way you don't have to deal with painful details like page breaks, word wrapping and line lengths, etc. miguel