Please don"t kick me!

Hi all.

I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list, but
my searches in the archives are not being nice to me. So... please
don't kick me.

Currently, we use DOMPDF to generate PDFs from HTML. However, it's no
longer maintained and it has a few bugs that we just can no longer
live with. What PDF generating software do you use? It does not have
to be free, but it must run on linux and may be command line or run
through code. Some of the ones I have researched are...

html2pdf
html2ps
html2fpdf
xhtml2pdf
fpdf
tcpdf

You're thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, my preference would be to
send HTML/CSS to a script and it just automagically convert to PS/PDF.

Thanks,
~Philip

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Re: Please don"t kick me!

Phillip,
I use ezpdf (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/). I've been using it for
years and have found it very capable of making any PDF I want.

Take care,
Floyd

On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Philip Thompson wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list,
> but my searches in the archives are not being nice to me. So...
> please don't kick me.
>
> Currently, we use DOMPDF to generate PDFs from HTML. However, it's
> no longer maintained and it has a few bugs that we just can no
> longer live with. What PDF generating software do you use? It does
> not have to be free, but it must run on linux and may be command
> line or run through code. Some of the ones I have researched are...
>
> html2pdf
> html2ps
> html2fpdf
> xhtml2pdf
> fpdf
> tcpdf
>
> You're thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, my preference would be to
> send HTML/CSS to a script and it just automagically convert to PS/PDF.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Philip
>
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Re: Please don"t kick me!

On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Floyd Resler wrote:

> Phillip,
> I use ezpdf (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/). I've been using it for
> years and have found it very capable of making any PDF I want.
>
> Take care,
> Floyd

This one seems fairly neat. However, it appears as though the author
no longer keeps up with it - last entry on 6/17/2006. Have you ever
run into any problems or setbacks with it?

Thanks,
~Philip

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Re: Please don"t kick me!

Nope. I've never had any troubles with it. I've been able to produce
all kinds of PDFs including loan agreements, inventory pick lists with
barcodes, and various others. I find it incredibly powerful and easy
to use.

Take care,
Floyd

On Oct 19, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Philip Thompson wrote:

> On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Floyd Resler wrote:
>
>> Phillip,
>> I use ezpdf (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/). I've been using it for
>> years and have found it very capable of making any PDF I want.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Floyd
>
> This one seems fairly neat. However, it appears as though the author
> no longer keeps up with it - last entry on 6/17/2006. Have you ever
> run into any problems or setbacks with it?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Philip
>
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Re: Please don"t kick me!

Hi Philip

Philip Thompson wrote on 2009-10-19 22:47:
> Hi all.
>
> I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list, but
my searches in the archives are not being nice to me. So... please don't
kick me.

Why would anyone do that? We're PHPeople and PHfrinds (ho ho)

> Currently, we use DOMPDF to generate PDFs from HTML. However, it's no
longer maintained and it has a few bugs that we just can no longer live
with. What PDF generating software do you use? It does not have to be
free, but it must run on linux and may be command line or run through
code. Some of the ones I have researched are...
>
> html2pdf
> html2ps
> html2fpdf
> xhtml2pdf
> fpdf
> tcpdf
>
> You're thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, my preference would be to
send HTML/CSS to a script and it just automagically convert to PS/PDF.

I've been using fpdf for 4-5 years for invoices among others and are
very happy with that.


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Re: Please don"t kick me!

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From: "Philip Thompson"
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Subject: [PHP] Please don't kick me!


> Hi all.
>
> I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list, but my
> searches in the archives are not being nice to me. So... please don't
> kick me.
>
> Currently, we use DOMPDF to generate PDFs from HTML. However, it's no
> longer maintained and it has a few bugs that we just can no longer live
> with. What PDF generating software do you use? It does not have to be
> free, but it must run on linux and may be command line or run through
> code. Some of the ones I have researched are...
>
> html2pdf
> html2ps
> html2fpdf
> xhtml2pdf
> fpdf
> tcpdf
>
> You're thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, my preference would be to send
> HTML/CSS to a script and it just automagically convert to PS/PDF.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Philip
>



I've been using ezpdf for many years and I think it is still the best option
available.
Ihttp://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/


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Re: Please don"t kick me!

> Hi all.
>
> I know this question has been asked a thousand times on the list, but
> my searches in the archives are not being nice to me. So... please
> don't kick me.
>
> Currently, we use DOMPDF to generate PDFs from HTML. However, it's no
> longer maintained and it has a few bugs that we just can no longer
> live with. What PDF generating software do you use? It does not have
> to be free, but it must run on linux and may be command line or run
> through code. Some of the ones I have researched are...
>
> html2pdf
> html2ps
> html2fpdf
> xhtml2pdf
> fpdf
> tcpdf
>
> You're thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, my preference would be to
> send HTML/CSS to a script and it just automagically convert to PS/PDF.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Philip
>

I find tcpdf very useful although ezpdf seems faster after a first look.
I am using tcpdf though because it has a native utf-8 support that most
pdf classes don't and that is vital to me.

I wasn't able to print greek for example with some other classes I 've
tried. I am not sure if ezpdf does that.

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Re: Please don"t kick me!

On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Floyd Resler wrote:

> Nope. I've never had any troubles with it. I've been able to
> produce all kinds of PDFs including loan agreements, inventory pick
> lists with barcodes, and various others. I find it incredibly
> powerful and easy to use.
>
> Take care,
> Floyd

Sorry if this is slightly OT.

I've been messing around with ezPdf for a little bit and it doesn't
appear to be able to allow for custom background colors or borders on
a per-row basis. Meaning, I have the option to color every other line
a single color... but I can't color every line a different color if I
want. Am I missing something here?

Basically, with the reports I'm currently generating, every row could
be a different color than the previous - it depends on various
factors. This is easy to accomplish with HTML/CSS. If this isn't
possible (or at least easily-accomplishable), then ezPdf may not be
for me.

Thanks,
~Philip

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Re: Please don"t kick me!

As far as I know ezPDF can't do what you want it to do. Of course,
you could always modify the code the suite your needs. Since it
already draws tables it probably wouldn't be too difficult to modify
it draw row backgrounds of different colors.

Take care,
Floyd

On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Philip Thompson wrote:

> On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Floyd Resler wrote:
>
>> Nope. I've never had any troubles with it. I've been able to
>> produce all kinds of PDFs including loan agreements, inventory pick
>> lists with barcodes, and various others. I find it incredibly
>> powerful and easy to use.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Floyd
>
> Sorry if this is slightly OT.
>
> I've been messing around with ezPdf for a little bit and it doesn't
> appear to be able to allow for custom background colors or borders
> on a per-row basis. Meaning, I have the option to color every other
> line a single color... but I can't color every line a different
> color if I want. Am I missing something here?
>
> Basically, with the reports I'm currently generating, every row
> could be a different color than the previous - it depends on various
> factors. This is easy to accomplish with HTML/CSS. If this isn't
> possible (or at least easily-accomplishable), then ezPdf may not be
> for me.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Philip
>
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Re: Please don"t kick me!

On Oct 20, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Floyd Resler wrote:

> As far as I know ezPDF can't do what you want it to do. Of course,
> you could always modify the code the suite your needs. Since it
> already draws tables it probably wouldn't be too difficult to modify
> it draw row backgrounds of different colors.
>
> Take care,
> Floyd

I got it to draw the different background colors successfully.
However, drawing borders is not as straight forward. I'm sure I could
get it working as well... but I'd rather it work *out of the box*.
Thanks for the suggestion. ;)

~Phil


> On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Philip Thompson wrote:
>
>> On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Floyd Resler wrote:
>>
>>> Nope. I've never had any troubles with it. I've been able to
>>> produce all kinds of PDFs including loan agreements, inventory
>>> pick lists with barcodes, and various others. I find it
>>> incredibly powerful and easy to use.
>>>
>>> Take care,
>>> Floyd
>>
>> Sorry if this is slightly OT.
>>
>> I've been messing around with ezPdf for a little bit and it doesn't
>> appear to be able to allow for custom background colors or borders
>> on a per-row basis. Meaning, I have the option to color every other
>> line a single color... but I can't color every line a different
>> color if I want. Am I missing something here?
>>
>> Basically, with the reports I'm currently generating, every row
>> could be a different color than the previous - it depends on
>> various factors. This is easy to accomplish with HTML/CSS. If this
>> isn't possible (or at least easily-accomplishable), then ezPdf may
>> not be for me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~Philip

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Re: Please don"t kick me!

Philip Thompson wrote on 2009-10-20 21:58:

> I got it to draw the different background colors successfully. However,
> drawing borders is not as straight forward. I'm sure I could get it
> working as well... but I'd rather it work *out of the box*. Thanks for
> the suggestion. ;)

Well, you're always welcome to contribute to an open source project you
take advantage of ;o)

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Re: Please don"t kick me!

On Oct 20, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Kim Madsen wrote:

> Philip Thompson wrote on 2009-10-20 21:58:
>
>> I got it to draw the different background colors successfully.
>> However, drawing borders is not as straight forward. I'm sure I
>> could get it working as well... but I'd rather it work *out of the
>> box*. Thanks for the suggestion. ;)
>
> Well, you're always welcome to contribute to an open source project
> you take advantage of ;o)

Tis true. However, my passion does not include creating a better PDF
generator. After doing a lil bit more research, I came across this one
and I really like it so far.

http://realobjects.com/PDFreactor.939.0.html

It's definitely not free, but it seems to do what I need... so far.

Thanks,
~Philip


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