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Hi Charlie,
Thanks for that. I've looked at various html 2 pdf tools (I used html2ps
for
a project about 10 years ago). But lack of even basic CSS support makes
the
them useless for creating "pretty" PDFs.
In reality, this project doesn't really need PDF output (HTML would work
fine), but $customer says it's a requirement, so I've got to make it work
for creating "pretty" PDFs.
I've found that a simple way to put values into a PDF is to use PDF
forms - position the form fields in the appropriate location in the
template doc, and to generate the output update the form fields and
write a 'flattened' version of the doc. This means you can use visual
tools to layout the doc, and your code doesn't need to know anything
except the field names.
Do you know if there is a way of creating PDFs in the same way the HTML
templates are created, by just putting a variable name in a certain place
and render that pdf file by replacing that variable with its value? (Without
needing to specify the position where those variables will be placed)
Thanks.
Octavian
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