Re: [PHP] ask for suggestion about printing
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 02:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are choosing some tools for building applications. Php is a very good tools to build web applications, but we don't know if it can generate printable reports. Printable reports mean the report you can print what you see on screen (like winword). We are asking if at here, there are good solutions to generate reports. Simply generate html files and print them are not good solutions to us, becuase you have to remove header / footer of html files, and html files seems not to be used for printing. We know we can use pdflib to generate pdf files, but it is very expensive (at least US $1,000) . If there are no other ways, we will be forced to use the old client-server approach again because printing report is very important to us. If you use XML instead of HTML, you could perform one XSLT process to create HTML for the online version and another XSLT process to create a file in any other format to create the print version. Erik Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] ask for suggestion about printing
Eric Coleman wrote: This can be done easily... And since when does PDFLIB cost money? I thought it was free... PDFLIB isn't free. A commercial PDFlib license is required for all uses of the software which are not explicitely covered by the Aladdin Free Public License (see bottom), for example: ? shipping a commercial product which contains PDFlib ? distributing (free or commercial) software based on PDFlib when the source code is not made available ? implementing commercial Web services with PDFlib ? you may develop free software with PDFlib, provided you make all of your own source code publicly available ? you may develop software for your own use with PDFlib as long as you don't sell it ? you may redistribute PDFlib non-commercially ? you may redistribute PDFlib on digital media for a fee if the complete contents of the media are freely redistributable. It's fine for some situations, but it's not *free* for all uses. There are actually quite a number of scenarios I come across where PDFLIB isn't a 'free' package, but requires someone to pay. implementing commercial Web services with PDFlib is pretty wide open, imo. Michael Kimsal http://www.phphelpdesk.com PHP support when you need it 734-480-9961 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] ask for suggestion about printing
Dear Sir, We are choosing some tools for building applications. Php is a very good tools to build web applications, but we don't know if it can generate printable reports. Printable reports mean the report you can print what you see on screen (like winword). We are asking if at here, there are good solutions to generate reports. Simply generate html files and print them are not good solutions to us, becuase you have to remove header / footer of html files, and html files seems not to be used for printing. We know we can use pdflib to generate pdf files, but it is very expensive (at least US $1,000) . If there are no other ways, we will be forced to use the old client-server approach again because printing report is very important to us. Many thanks!!! Boris --- PLEASE READ: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail you must not copy, distribute or take any further action in reliance upon it and you should delete it and notify the sender immediately. E-mail is not a secure method of communication. GuruBase Technology Limited cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message or any attachment(s). This transmission could contain viruses, be corrupted, destroyed, incomplete, intercepted, lost or arrive late. If verification of this e-mail is sought then please request a hard copy. Unless otherwise stated any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not represent those of GuruBase Technology Limited. This e-mail is intended for information purposes only. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] ask for suggestion about printing
This can be done easily... And since when does PDFLIB cost money? I thought it was free... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 2:02 PM Subject: [PHP] ask for suggestion about printing Dear Sir, We are choosing some tools for building applications. Php is a very good tools to build web applications, but we don't know if it can generate printable reports. Printable reports mean the report you can print what you see on screen (like winword). We are asking if at here, there are good solutions to generate reports. Simply generate html files and print them are not good solutions to us, becuase you have to remove header / footer of html files, and html files seems not to be used for printing. We know we can use pdflib to generate pdf files, but it is very expensive (at least US $1,000) . If there are no other ways, we will be forced to use the old client-server approach again because printing report is very important to us. Many thanks!!! Boris -- - PLEASE READ: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail you must not copy, distribute or take any further action in reliance upon it and you should delete it and notify the sender immediately. E-mail is not a secure method of communication. GuruBase Technology Limited cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message or any attachment(s). This transmission could contain viruses, be corrupted, destroyed, incomplete, intercepted, lost or arrive late. If verification of this e-mail is sought then please request a hard copy. Unless otherwise stated any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not represent those of GuruBase Technology Limited. This e-mail is intended for information purposes only. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] ask for suggestion about printing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This can be done easily... And since when does PDFLIB cost money? I thought it was free... http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/business.html I'm guessing they need multiple CPU and the PDI - which costs money. -- H | Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 303.442.6410 x130 Director of Internet Operations / SysAdmin. 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.. 3550 Arapahoe Ave, #6 http://www.pcraft.com . . .. Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] ask for suggestion about printing
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are choosing some tools for building applications. Php is a very good
tools to build web applications, but we don't know if it can generate
printable reports. Printable reports mean the report you can print
what you see on screen (like winword).
We are asking if at here, there are good solutions to generate reports.
Simply generate html files and print them are not good solutions to us,
becuase you have to remove header / footer of html files, and html files
seems not to be used for printing.
We know we can use pdflib to generate pdf files, but it is very
expensive (at least US $1,000) .
In the past I've used RTF for this. Call header('Content-Type:
application/rtf') and then just spit out RTF text.
The format is pretty simple; set up a sample file in your word processor
(the older the word processor you use, the better, since they're less
likely to clutter the file with the reams of clutter than new MS apps dump
into everything they write out; I used MS Word 4.0 as my guide) using the
various features you need, save it as RTF, look at it in a text editor,
repeat a few times, and you should have it mastered within an afternoon.
Many word processors can read it, it's much less work than a PDF, and it's
particularly well-suited for tabular data like reports. You can't get the
same level of graphical prettiness than you can with a PDF, but if you
just need something flexible and easy to work with that almost everyone
can open/read, it's a good way to go.
miguel
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