Op 2/08/2012 14:01, wouter adem schreef: > Hi Bruno, > > it's been a while since I wrote my original post. > > As I understood you and Dries have had a talk about possible future plans > concerning Drupal and iText. I'm really interested in what has been said in > that talk. If possible and ready, could you share some of the ideas?
We've discussed this, and we agreed that it didn't make sense to invest time in a PHP port. It makes much more sense investing in Cloud services offering PDF functionality served on either a Java or a Windows platform. Services are becoming more and more languages agnostic, and that's the way to go. There used to be a time when setting up a Java server was a huge hurdle versus setting up a PHP server, but that was a problem of the previous century. Moreover while PHP is fine for Drupal, it isn't an ideal language to write a component that produces PDF. Sure, you could write something that creates simple PDFs or that fills out forms, but you'll have a hard time writing a PHP library that is able to deal with the more complex stuff. Bottom line: we dismissed the idea of investing in a PHP port in favor of connecting to a PDF service (hosted on a Java server) from Drupal. By the way: I like writing PHP, but I've never considered writing a PHP port. Other people have offered to write a PHP port of iText, but AFAIK not one of them succeeded. best regards, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
