Well, the solution is not easy to implement.

But let's says :
 1 the user click on 'Generate PDF'
 2 the request is registered to the queue
 3 you display a new page to the user 'please wait while the PDF is generating'
 4 you poll (with ajax) that the queue system to know the status. if
no ajax then you can use a http redirect after 4sec ..., you should
display a loading gif for better user experience
 5. if ok then redirect the user to the PDF file.

Thomas

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
>  Thanks for your advice. There is one thing I dont catch yet.
>
>  We use PDF generation for creating printing reports. If the user
>  requests a report just after he or she changed the information, the
>  report would have to be created on the fly.
>
>  Is there a better way to create print reports that will not require
>  that much memory? We tried HTML but they needed decoration and
>  pagination on the report. Also when a html report is printed the
>  client machine's settings can mess the outcome.
>
>  Thanks in advanced,
>  Antonio
>
>
>  On Apr 29, 6:44 am, "Thomas Rabaix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > Your first problem look to me as a memory issue. You shouldn't do on
>  > the fly PDF generation. You should do generation in a background
>  > process with a queue system. So your server will not go out of memory
>  > or down because X users request a PDF.
>  >
>  > Thomas
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  > >  Hi everyone,
>  >
>  > >  We have two issues that are killing us. We are new to Symfony and our
>  > >  development is going OK but the client requested this two issues
>  > >  solved asap and we have not been able to provide the solution nor the
>  > >  alternate way to proceed.
>  >
>  > >  1.- We have not been able to generate 15+ pages PDF files. We tried
>  > >  with dump and TCPDF plugins and so far we have not been able to
>  > >  generate large pdfs. Short 5-10 pages work ok. Any ideas?. I read that
>  > >  there is a way to use Zend's pdf generation capabilities from symfony
>  > >  but I just don't know how.
>  >
>  > >  2.- Our client wants us to integrate "ANY" report generation tool that
>  > >  would give them the fuctionality of generating crossed fileds reports.
>  > >  This generator would be linked to our symfony development by URL and
>  > >  should have a GUI for them to select fields and/or tables to generate
>  > >  reports. We would make it look like if it was wrapped in the symfony
>  > >  application by using templating. Any suggeestion?
>  >
>  > >  Thanks in advanced?
>  > >  Tony
>  >
>  > --
>  > Thomas Rabaix
>  >
>  > Internet Consultant
>



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