Re: Batch processing & HTML2PS

From: Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 17:11:06 +0000
Subject: Re: Batch processing & HTML2PS
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In article <php.general-95821@news.php.net>, php-general@gremlins.com.hk (Jason Wong) wrote: > On Friday 03 May 2002 07:03, Mrdini wrote: > > > > I think using the PDF functions would be a much better solution. You have > > > full control over what gets printed where. Search on sourceforge for > > > wrapper classes which make the PDF functions easier to use. > > > > Well, I didn't really look into this way of doing PDFs as I want to dump > > straight to lpr (it's a postscript laser printer). Also, I don't feel up > > to learning how to create PDFs -_-. I had a look a while back, and it > > sounds VERY complicated. > > I as said, take a look at some of those classes. It's a lot easier that you > think. And whatever little learning curve there is, is more than made up for > by not having to deal with the uncertainties of HTML layout :) ....(a day later)..... *bows* You are, of course, right. :) Whilst I haven't quite gotten there yet, I've been experimenting a bit with <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php/> and it's _easy_! Whilst not as flexible as something like PDFlib, it suits my purposes very well nevertheless. The end is in sight! Thanks. -- Yoav Felberbaum E-Mail: y.m.felberbaum@wlv.ac.uk Website (Not worth looking ^_^) : http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~c9807379/

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