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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	There a re a number of solutions to this problem: [b]PDFLib[/b] This is the 'standard' way of creating PDFs through PHP and is part of the manual at: [url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php]PDF functions[/url] and is available from there: [url=http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/]PDFlib â€“ A library for generating PDF on the fly[/url] However, the precompiled versions now requires a commercial license and there are other solutions. [b]Ghostscript[/b] Capable of producing much lighter PDF files. The basic principles involve converting your web page into a PostScript format using [url=http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html]html2ps[/url] and then running it through Ghostscript to produce the PDF making use of the [url=http://www.php.net/system]system()[/url] function. You may want to look at the Ghostscript documentation relating to [url=http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/gnu/7.05/Install.htm#Install_Unix]Installing Ghostscript on Unix[/url] and [url=http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/gnu/7.05/Make.htm#Unix_build]How to build Ghostscript from source (Unix version)[/url] See these resources for code which should get you going: [url=http://www.rustyparts.com/pdf.php]HTML_ToPDF 2.0[/url] [url=http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps-archive/msg00535.html]pdf maker in php ... clarification[/url] [b]Portable Document Markup Language ( for PHP )[/b] [url=http://pdml.sourceforge.net/index.php]PDML[/url] is built on top of FPDF, and is licensed under the GPL. It's a markup language ( similar to HTML ) parsed in PHP to dynamically create some PDF files. --------------------------- Relevant FAQs: [internallink=5316]How do I create PDF files without Adobe Acrobat?[/internallink] _____________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Mon 07-Oct-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Mon 07-Oct-2002)[/i][/small] [small](Edited by [internallink=2185]poi[/internallink] on 05-08-2004 03:51)[/small] Loading...
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