Re: [PHP] CF vs PHP for Creating PDF's
We are doing some PDF work for a client in PHP. Not quite sure how many 'tags' CF has, but, although there are many, it's not an easy thing. Lots of 'exact positioning' for everything, and we ended up writing some routines ourselves to handle textboxes and such. You'll need to invest a bit of time, but I'd imagine you would under cold fusion as well. The cpdf1 service from adobe looks neat, but it also looks like it takes a while - doesn't look like it'd be a good 'realtime' service to integrate with your site. If you need 'real time' PDFs you'll need to roll your own I'd think. Good luck. DPG Account wrote: Hi- I'm new to this list. I'll start out with hopefully a good question. I have a project coming up where I need to take some form input insert it into a premade template and create a custom pdf for a user. The pdf will then be e-mailed to the user or a link to download it e-mailed to them. My question is, which would be better for doing this? I see Cold Fusion has some tags for creating pdf's but it looks like PHP has more capabilities along these lines. Also, I see Adobe (http://cpdf1.adobe.com/) has its own pdf service that might somehow be able to be taken advantage of. If anyone has some expertise and knowledge to share along these lines I would be grateful. Thanks for any help, --- | D A R K P O R T A L G A M E STony K. Bounds, Web Wizard | | http://www.darkportalgames.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |_| | You provide the paper. We provide the adventure. | --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] CF vs PHP for Creating PDF's
You might look into HTMLDOC. This progam takes HTML files as input and converts them to PDF. You could create a template in HTML, use PHP to replace to user specific fields and then call HTMLDOC to create the PDF. HTMLDOC is located at http://easysw.com/htmldoc/ Michael On Saturday, January 20, 2001, at 08:45 PM, DPG Account wrote: Hi- I'm new to this list. I'll start out with hopefully a good question. I have a project coming up where I need to take some form input insert it into a premade template and create a custom pdf for a user. The pdf will then be e-mailed to the user or a link to download it e-mailed to them. My question is, which would be better for doing this? I see Cold Fusion has some tags for creating pdf's but it looks like PHP has more capabilities along these lines. Also, I see Adobe (http://cpdf1.adobe.com/) has its own pdf service that might somehow be able to be taken advantage of. If anyone has some expertise and knowledge to share along these lines I would be grateful. Thanks for any help, --- | D A R K P O R T A L G A M E STony K. Bounds, Web Wizard | | http://www.darkportalgames.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |_| | You provide the paper. We provide the adventure. | --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] CF vs PHP for Creating PDF's
Hi- I'm new to this list. I'll start out with hopefully a good question. I have a project coming up where I need to take some form input insert it into a premade template and create a custom pdf for a user. The pdf will then be e-mailed to the user or a link to download it e-mailed to them. My question is, which would be better for doing this? I see Cold Fusion has some tags for creating pdf's but it looks like PHP has more capabilities along these lines. Also, I see Adobe (http://cpdf1.adobe.com/) has its own pdf service that might somehow be able to be taken advantage of. If anyone has some expertise and knowledge to share along these lines I would be grateful. Thanks for any help, --- | D A R K P O R T A L G A M E STony K. Bounds, Web Wizard | | http://www.darkportalgames.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |_| | You provide the paper. We provide the adventure. | --- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
