On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:16, Michael Lake wrote: > Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > > I want to develop an application that uses a background database but > > delivers the displayed data in a web browser. OK, no big deal so far. > > > > The problem is that I also want to be able to deliver printable material > > which will need a degree of formatting to suit a preprinted form. This > > printable material could comprise any number of formatted output sheets to > > be printed as overlays on the preprinted forms. > > > > Given that I want to use a web browser as the main user interface, what > > would be the best language in which to write the app? I'm guessing PHP > > rather than Perl; I see that that has a set of PDF functions that might > > give me what I want. > > I have the same requirement. I am using Perl for the scripting language > and will probably be using PDFLIB > http://www.pdflib.com/ > It also has bindings for PHP > I have tried it out and it can produces very nice small PDF which comes > up quick on a web page. > > Read the licence though as it's not pure GPL.
We just implemented a system in c with pdflib at work. It works very well. We have to pay a license per server. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
