Hello Wouter, I forwarded your mail to Dries. We're meeting @ Acquia in Boston on July 10th. We'll brainstorm about the different options.
Many have started an attempt to port iText to PHP; all attempts have failed so far. PHP is very different from Java, and I don't see any competing PDF products as feature-rich as iText that are written in PHP. I'll keep you posted about what Dries and I discussed. best regards, Bruno Lowagie Op 1/06/2012 10:02, wouter adem schreef: > Hi, > > following the iText Summit 2012, and the way iText is heading, I really do > believe in iText's business story! > No new news told, but the Internet is nowadays the medium to work on (e.g. > newspaper, ecological footstamp, ...). Personally, I think more customers > (SalesForce, company archiving, ...) would be reachable if we do make work > of a (web based) PHP port. > > As a Drupal developer, we often - this is an understatement or will be > become one in the future - have to integrate expensive solutions in (often > large) projects which are written in PHP to create just a simple PDF > document. The problem is we(developers) KNOW there exists, from both a > development and an architectural point of view which we can sell to our > business, a good solution for PDF(which is iText), but we are unable to use > its possibilities... > Personally, I think this is a shame. And there is absolutely NO need to > reinvent the wheel here. iText is there and we should use it because its > good. > > So my question is actually both for Drupal(Dries) and iText(Bruno) (and why > not other CMS's). Is there a roadmap ahead (e.g. setup by Acquia and iText > BVBA) or ideas for porting iText (lightweight) to PHP and what is the > current status of it? > > I would like to commit my time to this project in case there are some plans > ahead. I'm not naive in realizing this could be a huge project. But we have > to do it. It will take both iText and Drupal forward! > > Regards, > Wouter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
