Expired PDFLib
| From: | J Wynia | Date: | Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:06:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Expired PDFLib | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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I hadn't messed with PDFLib for a few months, but having run across the
PC4P PHP class for building them, I decided to work with it some more.
When I loaded up the examples, I got an "expired PDFLib" error message.
So, I went to PDFLib.com like a good little developer to figure it out.
They had a page detailing the fact that the PDFLib that is packaged with
PHP expired in July as a result of beta code that was left in. They
suggested that I download PDFLib 4.0.1 for PHP. So, I did.
Unfortunately, all of the Windows binaries from PDFLib.com put a huge
watermark across the entire page unless you buy a license. Typically,
the binaries of the DLL from the PHP dev team are compiled from the
source which is under a free license (albeit a strange one). However,
the most recent stable binaries from php.net contain the time-bombed
DLL. Is there a php_pdf.dll out there compiled from the free source with
the time-bomb patch applied?