I'd also suggest using phantom.js and using it to render out your PDF's given some HTML and a stylesheet. I haven't really found a solution that works better.
Regards, Mike On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Matt Kynaston <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
