note 94909 modified in pdf.installation by danbrown

Brief installation notes. In the spite of the commercialization of libpdf library this is the way to use it in the lite mode. System: Ubuntu 8.04 + php5.2 Step 1: PDFlib http://www.pdflib.com/ download PDFlib-Lite: http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite-7/ extract: tar -xzvf PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX.tar.gz compile: cd PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX && ./configure && make && make install Step 2: Pecl for PDFlib http://pecl.php.net/package/pdflib install: install dependences: phpize (php5-dev package) pecl install pdflib path to pdflib installation? :/usr/local Step 3: php.ini extension=pdf.so Step 4: /etc/init.d/apache2 reload That's it. [Edited by RQuadling 2010/07/13 - Updated PDFlibe-Lite URL] [Edit by danbrown AT php DOT net: Contains a typofix by "Anonymous" on 11-AUG-2010.] --was-- Brief installation notes. In the spite of the commercialization of libpdf library this is the way to use it in the lite mode. System: Ubuntu 8.04 + php5.2 Step 1: PDFlib http://www.pdflib.com/ download PDFlib-Lite: http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite-7/ extract: tar -xzvf PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX.tar.gz compile: cd PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX & ./configure & make & make install Step 2: Pecl for PDFlib http://pecl.php.net/package/pdflib install: install dependences: phpize (php5-dev package) pecl install pdflib path to pdflib installation? :/usr/local Step 3: php.ini extension=pdf.so Step 4: /etc/init.d/apache2 reload That's it. [Edited by RQuadling 2010/07/13 - Updated PDFlibe-Lite URL] http://php.net/manual/en/pdf.installation.php