Heya, On 29 July 2014 23:38, dennis-fedco <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * (essentially using existing PDFs as a template) - Ability to include > (reuse) existing pre-made PDFs as part of PDF creation + ability to place > more data on said pre-made PDFs > If I understand correctly, you want to use one pdf as a "background" and render another PDF on top of it? Really don't know if ZF2 does this. Back when I last looked you either needed a paid-for pdflib (expensive) or do it via apache fop[1] + fop-pdf-images[2]. The latter's the approach we took, and I've not regrets. A simple Tomcat servlet - just a minor hack or two from the sample in the apache-fop source - takes the XSL-FO and returns the PDF. XSL-FO might look intimidating, but in practice anyone who can hand-code HTML soon gets the hang of it. You don't even need the XSL side of it - we use PHP templates to generate pure FO to render. Check it out and ping me if you need an example of the page-master that includes the background PDF. Matt [1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ [2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/fop-pdf-images.html
