I've used fpdf a few times (some time ago) and last week took a look at
Zend_Pdf
Let met start by saying i'm really happy with it, as it's so much clearer!

However, i got disappointed quite quickly when it appeared that Zend_Pdf
doesn't do text wrapping of large amounts of text. So, first i did a search
with google to see if other people had tackled this issue. I found a class
called Zend_Cell_Pdf, but unfortunately, that didn't work with my 1.5.2
installation. and every time i fixed one bug, i bumped into another. Also, i
saw that even if i got it working it wouldn't support aligning the text with
'justify' - something i also need

So, since it didn't seem to hard to program this functionality my self, i
decided to do just that.
One hour later, i had class that could create a text-block and even align it
(left, right, center & justify). But then, the problems with Zend_Pdf
started.

I wrote a class that could do all the calculations and store the information
about all the lines and spacing information.
To keep things clean, i decided to overload the drawText function, by
extending the Zend_Pdf_Page class and writing my own function.
But since the $page object is created form the Zend_Pdf class i had to
extend that class too, in order to let it instantiate my new page class.
The problem is: both classes are filled with private variables that make
extending them impossible. So, i'm left with two options:
1) modifying the Zend Framework classes so they can hadle my new
functionality. I don't want this, because then i can never upgrade anymore
2) copying a lot code to my own classes to be able to write the output. this
i obviously also don't want.

I'm posting this here, to get some feedback. Maybe i'm overlooking some
getter/setter functions? Maybe someone can explain to me if this was done
intentionaly and why?

i don't mind sharing my class btw. is that something i should post here on
the mailinglist or is there a better place for that?
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