Re: Competitive Class: Excel_File

El Mié 06 Nov 2002 19:12, Michael Dransfield escribió: > I have always found FPDF to be good, with an easy to use API, and is fairly > quick, its API makes it particularly easy to output excel files. excel files? > www.fpdf.org > > it has freeware licence, so would be easy to use within pear... You know if Olivier (the author) has any interest in contributing it to pear? > At 17:59 06/11/2002 -0300, Xavier Noguer wrote: > >El Mié 06 Nov 2002 17:45, Markus Wolff escribió: > > > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:10:17 +0100 > > > > > > Nah, not impossible. But if you want a real template system based on > > > placeholders, you can´t use a template that is already in PDF format, > > > IMHO. A very common way is to create your templates in TeX, and put > > > some placeholders in them. You could use a standard template class like > > > IT[X] or Smarty to replace them with the actual values. > > > After that, the TeX file has to be converted to a DVI file, which in > > > turn is then converted to PDF. Of course this can use up quite some CPU > > > time and memory. > > > > > > Although you can get some pretty neat results with this, I simply can´t > > > stand TeX... I think it would be way cooler if there existed some kind > > > of PDF conversion tool for OpenOffice documents. As these are nothing > > > but ZIPped XML files, one of the existing template classes could be > > > used for this as well. > > > > I think an alternative for this is XSL:FO. Check: > > > > http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=16 > > > > The thing that bothers me though, is that it depens on Java :( > > > > > Or are there other alternatives that I´ve missed? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Markus > > > >-- > >PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php