[BNM] PDF Generation from PHP

[Alex]

it's a class that you include in your pdf creation script. see the site 
for details.

re: find and replace. no, that won't work afaik but you can just have a 
var with the default template and find and replace in that then insert 
it into the pdf.

alex =]

Alan Braddish wrote:
> Is FPDF part of PHP 5 or is it something I need to download and install?
>
> Also - anybody know about my find-and-replace question - is this possible?
> As I have a template PDF file and only need to change a couple of
> placeholders with peoples names etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Alastair James
> Sent: 16 January 2008 12:43
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] PDF Generation from PHP
>
> +1 for http://www.fpdf.org/
>
> If you are using the Zend Framework, that has a passable (but semi
> incomplete) pdf library as well.
>
> Al
>
> On 16/01/2008, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:
>   
>> PDF itself however sucks.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> http://www.fpdf.org/ is your friend =]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alan Braddish wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I am looking to generate a PDF file from PHP.  Is the built-in library
>>>> sufficient for this?  Ideally I'd prefer to use this than buy in
>>>>         
> another
>   
>>>> library.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I only have 2 bits of text to change in an existing PDF file.  Is
>>>>         
> it
>   
>>>> possible to do some kind of find-and-replace operation on a PDF file
>>>>         
> (from
>   
>>>> PHP) so that I don't have to create the whole PDF file from scratch in
>>>>         
> PHP?
>   
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Alan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
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