Re: PDF w/ large blocks of text.

On Thursday 23 May 2002 03:03, Seth Northrop wrote: > Has anyone devised a good solution for handling large blocks of text when > creating pdfs? > > We want to convert otherwise web displayed reports into text keeping in > mind that they span multiple pages (10-1000), and will contain control > characters (\n, or arbitrary indention tags - ie, it's not just one > giant paragraph). We also have images to place primarily at the end of > the report so we need to be cognizant of our positions within pages > throughout the process. > > I see some discussion of the topic on the pdf_show_boxed function within > the PHP manual - but, nothing particularly conclusive nor nothing that > seems like it would intelligently handle multiple pages. > > I can think of a few less than ideal solutions; but, figured I'd see if > anyone else has any clever ideas (I can't imagine people haven't faced > this before). Search on sourceforge for "php pdf". There are some classes out there which makes the PDF functions very easy to use. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* You've been Berkeley'ed! */